Let's say you have a class with a Uri property. Is there any way to get that property to accept both a string value and a Uri? How would you build it?
I'd like to be able to do something like one of the following, but neither are supported (using VB, since it lets you specify type in the Set declaration for the 2nd one):
Class MyClass
    Private _link As Uri
   'Option 1: overloaded property
    Public Property Link1 As Uri
        Get
            return _link
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As Uri)
           _link = value
        End Set
    End Property
    Public Property link1 As String
        Get
            return _link.ToString()
        End Get
        Set(Byval value As String)
           _link = new Uri(value)
        End Set
   End Property
   ' Option 2: Overloaded setter
   Public Property link2 As Uri
      Get
          return _link
      End Get
      Set(Byval value As Uri)
          _link = value
      End Set
      Set(Byval value As String)
          _link = new Uri(value)
      End Set
End Class
Given that those probably won't be supported any time soon, how else would you handle this?  I'm looking for something a little nicer than just providing an additional .SetLink(string value) method, and I'm still on .Net2.0 (though if later versions have a nice feature for this, I'd like to hear about it).
I can think of other scenarios where you might want to provide this kind of overload: a class with an SqlConnection member that lets you set either a new connection or a new connection string, for example.