How to make the + operator work while adding two Points to each other?

Question

Is there any way to get the + operator to work for the Point object?

Take, for example, this tiny snippet:

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Answer 1

I read the documentation for System.Drawing.Point (linked in Cody Gray's answer), and it has an instance method Offset. That method mutates the current Point (the designers chose to make Point a mutable struct!).

So here's an example:

var p1 = new Point(10, 20);
var p2 = new Point(6, 7);
p1.Offset(p2); // will change p1 into the sum!

In the same doc I also see an explicit conversion from Point to Size. Therefore, try this:

var p1 = new Point(10, 20);
var p2 = new Point(6, 7);
Point pTotal = p1 + (Size)p2; // your solution?