C# Return Different Types?

Question

I got something like this:

public [What Here?] GetAnything()
{
     Hello hello = new Hello();
     Computer computer = new Computer();
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Answer 1

If you can make a abstract class for all the possibilities then that is highly recommended:

public Hardware GetAnything()
{
     Computer computer = new Computer();

     return computer;    
}

abstract Hardware {

}

class Computer : Hardware {

}

Or an interface:

interface IHardware {

}

class Computer : IHardware {

}

If it can be anything then you could consider using "object" as your return type, because every class derives from object.

public object GetAnything()
{
     Hello hello = new Hello();

     return hello;    
}