C# Return Different Types?

Question

I got something like this:

public [What Here?] GetAnything()
{
     Hello hello = new Hello();
     Computer computer = new Computer();
     Radio radio = ne         


        

Answer 1

Marc's answer should be the correct one, but in .NET 4 you couldn't also go with dynamic type.

This should be used only if you have no control over the classes you return and there are no common ancestors ( usually with interop ) and only if not using dynamic is a lot more painful then using(casting every object in every step :) ).

Few blog post trying to explain when to use dynamic: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/csharpfaq/archive/tags/dynamic/

public dynamic GetSomething()
{
     Hello hello = new Hello();
     Computer computer = new Computer();
     Radio radio = new Radio(); 
     return // anyobject

}