Can you overload controller methods in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

I\'m curious to see if you can overload controller methods in ASP.NET MVC. Whenever I try, I get the error below. The two methods accept different arguments. Is this some

Answer 1

I needed an overload for:

public ActionResult Index(string i);
public ActionResult Index(int groupId, int itemId);

There were few enough arguments where I ended up doing this:

public ActionResult Index(string i, int? groupId, int? itemId)
{
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhitespace(i))
    {
        // parse i for the id
    }
    else if (groupId.HasValue && itemId.HasValue)
    {
        // use groupId and itemId for the id
    }
}

It's not a perfect solution, especially if you have a lot of arguments, but it works well for me.