Creating an instance of a class

Question

I have a method in another namespace I am trying to call that gathers the local users information. namespace Tools { public sealed class Methods { public void LocalUser(string user string password) { CreateLocalUser(user password new List  string.Empty string.Empty ); } } } namespace MyApplication { class LogOn { static void Main (string[] args) { Tools tol = new Tools(); var locUser = tol.LocalUser() // I want to pull this information from this method into an instance to utilize it for another method } } } I want to get the local user and password from the LocalUser method so I can utilize it in another method in MyApplication . Is this possible?

Vulpes · Answer

Incidentally if you want to get the user and password from the LocalUser method (assuming it's getting them from somewhere else) then you coud use 'out' parameters: namespace Tools { public sealed class Methods { public void LocalUser( out string outUser out string outPassword) { // insert code to get user and password CreateLocalUser(user password new List  string.Empty string.Empty); outUser = user; outPassword = password; } } } You'd then call like this: namespace MyApplication { class LogOn { static void Main (string[] args) { Tools.Methods meth = new Tools.Methods(); string user password; meth.LocalUser(out user out password); // insert code to do something with user and password } } }

Marc · Answer

That works. Thanks Vulpes! Been a big help!

Vulpes · Answer

The alteration suggested in my second post above should get rid of the void can't be converted to var error. Are there any other errors? BTW I've only hard-coded some values for 'user' and 'password' to indicate that something will need to be passed to the LocalUser method. I imagine you'll be getting these 'dynamically' in practice.

Marc · Answer

Neither one of the code blocks work. Come up with compile errors saying that void can't be converted to var. Trying to avoid any hardcoding as well.

Vulpes · Answer

Another point I've noticed is that LocalUser is a void method whereas your calling code assumes it returns a value. So you'll either need to change the method so that it does return a value or change: var locUser = meth.LocalUser(user password); to simply: meth.LocalUser(user password);

Vulpes · Answer

You can either do it like this: using Tools; // import Tools namespace namespace MyApplication { class LogOn { static void Main (string[] args) { Methods meth = new Methods(); string user = marc; string password = 2ajwr24e; var locUser = meth.LocalUser(user password); } } } or like this: namespace MyApplication { class LogOn { static void Main (string[] args) { Tools.Methods meth = new Tools.Methods(); string user = marc; string password = 2ajwr24e; var locUser = meth.LocalUser(user password); } } }