Are there properties that differ in parameters and return type?

Question

I have a class call CalcArray that has an array of doubles called Amounts(), and two ints, StartPeriod and EndPeriod

Answer 1

You can do this with a function returning a different based on how it is called. Especially since you have a param, a function might be more appropriate:

Public Function AnAmount(Of T)(parm As SomeType) As T

to use it:

Dim n as Decimal
n = AnAmount(Of Decimal)(foo)

Its very useful as a way to avoid returning an object and then have to use CType to convert the return. In this case, an amount implies a value type, but the function would accept Point, Rectangle etc as T, so you might need to check valid type requests.