Assignment Operator Alternative

[Funky]

In the code snippet below, I have a base class (originally written in
C++) that byte swaps data when assigned or read from the class (thus,
always storing the data as big-endian).

As for those wondering how the data is set outside these 2 public
operations: This class is later used to declare attributes in other
classes and in these other classes, System.IO.Buffer is used copy bytes
from a socket.

So anyway, I see that C# does not support assignment operator
overloading. Nor does it support primitive type overloading. What are
my alternatives?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace TestApp {
class BaseClass {
/* Always stored in big-endian */
private ushort myValue;

private static ushort swap(ushort input) {
return((ushort)((0xFF00 & input) >8) | ((0x00FF & input) << 8));
}

public operator ushort () {
return (swap(myValue));
}

public BaseClass operator= (byte rhs) {
myValue = swap(rhs);
return(this);
}
}
}

[Mattias Sjögren]

>So anyway, I see that C# does not support assignment operator

>overloading. Nor does it support primitive type overloading. What are
my alternatives?

Conversion operators. See the implicit and explicit keywords.
Mattias

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[Funky]

Mattias Sjögren wrote:

>So anyway, I see that C# does not support assignment operator
overloading. Nor does it support primitive type overloading. What are
my alternatives?

Conversion operators. See the implicit and explicit keywords.
Mattias

Thank you! I'm back on track now.