C# Understanding & Creating Classes

Post by Carl Scaglione on September 20, 2017

The C# code that was in the Exercise Files was the namespace InheritableClass.  It was topically related, but no where near the same code that was delivered in the lecture. Was this intentional?  Looks like interesting code and advanced for this lesson.  Look forward to your response.

Post by Carl Scaglione on September 20, 2017

Followed along with your video and received unrecoverable compiler errors.  In your code, they did not appear and my code was almost identical.  When creating the methods 'public void Account() {}', public long Account(string name){ some code}, and public void Account (long ID, string name){}, I received the CS0542 code error:  'Account' member names cannot be the same as their enclosing type.  I did change the name of the methods to 'myAccount' and the problem went away, but the objective of the lesson was to show constructors which are supposed to have the same name as the class.  I am using Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2017.  This is new to me.  Do you have any thoughts?  I have followed your lectures and this is the first time that such an unresolvable error occurred.  

Post by Thuy Nguyen on April 20, 2014

I learned on Lynda.com that the return type is not part of the method signature, because C# won't know which method you want just based on the return type.  But...somehow in this lecture you can have two constructors with the same parameter list and different return types...I don't know what is the right about overloaded methods anymore now.  

Even if you can have two methods with the same parameter type but with different return values, would it be good practice to?  

Post by Thuy Nguyen on April 20, 2014

Hi, in Java, I learned that the constructor doesn't return anything, not even void.  Why would a constructor return anything in C# if it's job is to create a new object?