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Need some help out there. To give an example of my problem suppose the following...

VB
Public Module MathHelpers
  Public Function Add(ByVal param1 As Object, ByVal param2 As Object) As Object
    Return param1 + param2
  End Function
End Module


And you wanted to be a bit more OOP by overloading the function to prevent unboxing and boxing you decide to do this. Also, not only for the aforementioned reasons you wanted to add 2 class objects that have something specific to these class objects that can be added. But leaving the parameter data type as Object will not suffice to capture the differences between say adding 2 class objects in comparison with 2 integer types. Does that make sense?
VB
Public Module MathHelpers
  Public Overloads Function Add(ByVal param1 As Integer, ByVal param2 As Integer) As Integer
    Return param1 + param2
  End Function
  'Continue this for all primitive data types you want to handle
End Module


After running into this error[^]. I am bit unsure what to do next.

Since the MSDN hints that Classes can overload functions I decided if I could create a Static Class. Since that proved pointless all I want is to overload this function without creating an instance of it.

MSDN does poor job in this scenario telling me A) Why this is not encouraged to do and B) some helpful advice on how to encapsulate my functions/routines with overloading.

Any advice you can offer I would greatly appreciate.

If you need me to clarify anything just let me know.
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