Method Overloading with different return type [duplicate]

Answer 1

Your code will result in a Compiler Error. You can not have a Method of the same name with the same parameters and a different return type, the caller would not know which Method to call (will not be able to resolve the location in Memory of the Method to call, why the Compiler would not allow it). Your alternative would be to return an Object and Cast it based on what the Caller knows. Even then, that appears to be Bad design.

This will Work (meaning Compile), but still bad design.

public class Foo
{
    public object Bar(int a)
    {
        return a;
    }
}