Simplifying Use Of Static

Shweta Lodha

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Graeme Pariot5y ago
Simple but useful tip. Thanks for sharing.
Rajan M5y ago
For me, it is not worth using. If one use like this then they have to remember the method name of all static classes when using in the file. I think using class name with prefixed with static method is best approach in-terms of code readability and we don't have to remember the appropriate methods.
- Shweta Lodha5y ago
  Agree, it varies from developer to developer. If you will ask me, I really don't care whether called method is static or simply a member of non static class. While writing the code to call this method for the very first time, one must be cautious, but once code is in place, it rarely matters. On other side, it is very rare that you will have same method as a member method because while writing static methods, we do have very specific purpose in mind and that goes in hand with naming convention too. I really appreciate your opinion.
Shantoh Singh5y ago
Nice tip madam.
- Shweta Lodha5y ago
  Thanks Shantoh

Everyone must have come across static keyword while doing development, specifically using C#. Static modifier is used to declare static member, which means it belongs to the type itself. Well, as part of this article, I’m not going to discuss more about static, but if you are interested in knowing more about it, here is a good reference.

public class Logger
{
public static int GetLogLevel(string logType)
{
…
}
}

Above is a sample code snippet wherein, we have a class called Logger and it has a static method called GetLogLevel.

Now in order to call this GetLogLevel(…) method, first we have to add the required namespace, where this Logger class has been defined. Something like this,

using Planner.Utilities;

Well, there's nothing new as of now. Next, let’s have a look at how to make a call to this static method.

int logLevel = Logger.GetLogLevel(fileLog);

So far, it's nothing that bad, but we do have room to improve our code by making it more readable and cleaner. Let’s re-write our code in the below two steps,

Step 1 - Using static keyword along with namespace

using static Planner.Utilities.Logger;

Step 2 - Remove class name while calling static method

As we have already referred our class along with namespace, we need not to write that again. Hence, we can directly call our static method as shown below,

int logLevel =GetLogLevel(fileLog);

What do you think about this approach? Isn’t it cool?