Greetings Bonnie,

Thanks for your reply. I had seen that example in the help, but hadn't been able to figure out how to adapt my situation to it. A co-worker helped me figure it out. hc is the Hand and dc is the card returned drom the Deck.DealCard()

public static Hand operator +(Hand hc, Card dc)
{
hc.Cards[hc.cardcount] = dc
hc.cardcount++;
return (hc);
}

>There's a .NET forum here too, where this post might have gotten a quicker response. Anyway, have you read the Help topics on operator overloading? How have they explained it to you in the C# class that you're taking? I've not actually done any operator overloading, but it seems pretty straightforward. I found some examples in the Help, here's an example of an overloaded + operator in a struct (could be used in a class as well, like your Hand class):
>

>public struct Complex
>{
>   public int real;
>   public int imaginary;
>
>   public Complex(int real, int imaginary)
>   {
>      this.real = real;
>      this.imaginary = imaginary;
>   }
>
>   // Declare which operator to overload (+), the types
>   // that can be added (two Complex objects), and the
>   // return type (Complex):
>   public static Complex operator +(Complex c1, Complex c2)
>   {
>      return new Complex(c1.real + c2.real, c1.imaginary + c2.imaginary);
>   }
>   // Override the ToString method to display an complex number in the suitable format:
>   public override string ToString()
>   {
>      return(String.Format("{0} + {1}i", real, imaginary));
>   }
>

>This should maybe get you started.
>
>~~Bonnie
>
>
>>This is more a VFPer learning .Net instead of VFP and .Net.
>>
>>I've started a C# class and I'm having some difficulty with operator overloading.
>>
>>It's a card game (great real-world example, huh) with a Deck class and a Hand class. Both have card arrays that contain card objects. I'm trying to overload the + operator of the Hand class so that I can get a card from the deck array into the hand array. This is a requirement of the lab, not something I decided to do on my own.
>>
>>Hand h1 = new Hand();
>>Deck d = new Deck();
>>
>>//Should add a card object to h1.Cards array
>>h1+= d.DealCard();
>>
>>Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>E.R.