how can i know whether an optional parameter is passed or not?

[DaveyM69]

Can't do that until C# 4.0 which hasn't been released yet.

Dave
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[Mirko1980]

Not until C# 4, at least. (Oook, DaveyM69 posted the same thing at the same time... ;P)

[abhiram_nayan]

this means, i should go with an overloaded function, that's it?!

[Mirko1980]

If there is not anything that stops you from adding another overload (such as conflicting signature with another overload), yes. Alternatively, you can mimic an optional parameter by addin a parameter that accepts null values, and using a default value in the method body if null has been received.

[ABitSmart]

In reference to C# 4.0, I was just curious, would it be possible to know if an optional parameter was passed or no ? If we did not pass the value, it would take the default value which is defined. But how will the body know if the optional parameter was passed or no ?

[Mirko1980]

Well, it will not know. It will use the default value without worring if it was passed by the caller or automatically used. The whole point of optional parameters is to make that logic transparent to the method implementation.

[ABitSmart]

Well, I understand that. Looking at the OP's question and the given reference to C# 4.0 Optional parameters, made me curious.

[Lost User]

I don't want to be nit-picky, but C# 4.0 actually does support default parameters :)

[naresh_prakash]

In Microsoft published Framework 2.0, few examples exists when you need to passing optional parameters... i haven't book with me now but i know it is possible. I'll show you examples later bec i already used it.... Thanks Naresh Prakash

[Lost User]

I also heard they were already supported in the .NET 2.0 CLR, but for some reason the features were not exposed to the C# language.