C# code to handle different classes with same method names

Question

Let\'s say you have two different C# classes A and B that while not deriving from the same base class do share some of the same names for methods.

Answer 1

There is a OOAD concept of 'Programe to an interface not to an implementation' which let's you avoid the chain of inheritance hierarchies

1- You can create a interfcae

interface IConnection
{
    void Connect();
    void Disconnect();
}

2- And let your classes implement this interface as shown below.

class A : IConnection
{
    #region IConnection Members

    public void Connect()
    {
       // your connect method implementation goes here.
    }

    public void Disconnect()
    {
        // your disconnect method implementation goes here.
    }

    #endregion
}


class B : IConnection
{
    #region IConnection Members

    public void Connect()
    {
         // your connect method implementation goes here.
    }

    public void Disconnect()
    {
        // your disconnect method implementation goes here.
    }

    #endregion
}

3- Once you done with the implementation than you can make your function accepting an argument of IConnection as shown below.

public void makeConnection(IConnection con)
    {
        con.Connect();
        con.Disconnect();
    }

4- And from your client code , you can pass the object of classes which implements IConnect Interface.