I have a parent class, account, with two derived, SavingsAccount and CheckingsAccount. Those child classes have their own variants of the methods. I want to call the method of the object which is store in the array. So the array of type Account holds objects of type SavingsAccount and CheckingsAccount.
I thought I could call it by doing the Account[0].CalculateInterest
CalculateInterest in a method inside SavingsAccount.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace CustomersPartTwo
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Account[] customerAccounts = new Account[4];
decimal temp = 0;
customerAccounts[0] = new SavingsAccount(25, 0.03m);
customerAccounts[1] = new SavingsAccount(200, 0.015m);
customerAccounts[2] = new CheckingAccount(80, 1);
customerAccounts[3] = new CheckingAccount(400, 0.5m);
Console.WriteLine("Account 1 balance: " + customerAccounts[0].Balance.ToString("C"));
Console.WriteLine("Enter an amount to withdraw: ");
temp = Convert.ToDecimal(Console.ReadLine());
customerAccounts[0].Debit(temp);
Console.WriteLine("Enter an amount to deposit: ");
temp = Convert.ToDecimal(Console.ReadLine());
customerAccounts[0].Credit(temp);
if (customerAccounts[0].GetType() == typeof(SavingsAccount))
{
customerAccounts[0].Credit(SavingsAccount.CalculateInterest());
}
}
/* Base Class ------------------------------------*/
class Account
{
private decimal balance;
/* Property */
public decimal Balance
{
get { return balance; }
set
{
if (value < 0)
balance = 0;
else
balance = value;
}
}
/* Constructor */
public Account(decimal initialBalance)
{
Balance = initialBalance;
}
/* Method to add to balance */
public void Credit(decimal addedFunds)
{
Balance += addedFunds;
}
/* Method to subtract from balance */
public void Debit(decimal subtractedFunds)
{
if (subtractedFunds > Balance)
Console.WriteLine("Debit amount exceeds balance amount");
else
Balance -= subtractedFunds;
}
}
/* Base Class ------------------------------------*/
class SavingsAccount : Account
{
private decimal interestRate;
/* Constructor */
public SavingsAccount(decimal initialBalance, decimal rateOfInterest) : base(initialBalance)
{
interestRate = rateOfInterest;
}
/* Method to calculate interest */
public decimal CalculateInterest()
{
decimal earnedInterest = 0;
earnedInterest = Balance * interestRate;
return earnedInterest;
}
}
class CheckingAccount : Account
{
private decimal transactionFee;
/* Constructor */
public CheckingAccount(decimal initialBalance, decimal usageFee) : base(initialBalance)
{
transactionFee = usageFee;
}
/* Method to add to balance */
public new void Credit(decimal addedFunds)
{
Balance += addedFunds;
Balance -= transactionFee;
}
/* Method to subtract from balance */
public new void Debit(decimal subtractedFunds)
{
if (subtractedFunds > Balance)
Console.WriteLine("Debit amount exceeds balance amount");
else
Balance -= (subtractedFunds + transactionFee);
}
}
}
}
CalculateIntereston an instance ofAccount, e.gcustomerAccounts[0].Credit(customerAccounts[0].CalculateInterest()). Can you show us yourAccountclass as well? DoesCalculateInterestexist on this class also? If not, you may need to cast your instance toSavingsAccount.BankAccountclass, and then create instances of that, likeBankAccount checkingAccount = new BankAccount();This way your method only needs to worry about a single type.