about override

[Tony Johansson]

Hello!

I have noticed that you can write this override in two different ways.

You can either write in this way
public override string ToString()
{
return something;
}

OR IN THIS WAY
override public string ToString()
{
return something;
}

Is this two way exactly the same thing?
Which way is the recommnended way?

//Tony

[Morten Wennevik]

Tony

I have never seen the latter way of writing it before you pointed it out, but they are equal. The first way is the preferred, and intellisense will in fact swap the latter with the first, although readability might argue the latter is the better.

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Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

[Tom Spink]

Tony Johansson wrote:

Hello!

I have noticed that you can write this override in two different ways.

You can either write in this way
public override string ToString()
{
return something;
}

OR IN THIS WAY
override public string ToString()
{
return something;
}

Is this two way exactly the same thing?
Which way is the recommnended way?

//Tony

Hi Tony,

If you're a native English speaker, it seems logical to say: "override
public string", since you are going to "override" the method signature that
follows. However, I *always* without question use "public override string"
because it maintains a standard throughout my code, i.e. the method
signature begins with a scope, then any modifiers, then it's return type.

I reccommend the first.

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Hope this helps,
Tom Spink

[WhiteWizard]

They are exactly the same, just the keywords in different sequences.

The convention most everyone uses is :
public override string ToString()

with the access modifier first.

HTH
Gandalf
MCSD.NET, MCAD, MCT
"Tony Johansson" wrote:

Hello!

I have noticed that you can write this override in two different ways.

You can either write in this way
public override string ToString()
{
return something;
}

OR IN THIS WAY
override public string ToString()
{
return something;
}

Is this two way exactly the same thing?
Which way is the recommnended way?

//Tony