Shadows vs Overloads in VB.NET

Question

When we have new in C#, that personally I see only as a workaround to override a property that does not have a virtual/overridable declaration, in VB.NET we hav

Answer 1

Shadows is for cases where your base class is Function SomeMethod() As String and you want to have Function SomeMethod() As Integer. Basically, to change the return type.

Overloads is for case where your base class is Function SomeMethod() As String and you want to add a parameter such as Function SomeMethod(ByVal value As Integer) As String.