Class in C# having static and non static member

Generally speaking, a non-static method cannot be called from a static method of the same class unless the latter is first passed a reference to an instance of that class.

This rather contrived example illustrates the last point:

using System;

class MyGreeting

{

public static void PrintGreeting(MyGreeting mg)

{

Console.WriteLine(mg.Greeting);

}

public string Greeting {get; set;}

public MyGreeting(string greeting)

{

Greeting = greeting;

}

public void BridgingMethod()

{

PrintGreeting(this);

}

class Program

{

static void Main()

{

MyGreeting mg = new MyGreeting("Hello World!");

mg.BridgingMethod();

Console.ReadKey();

}

}

The output is:

Hello World!

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Vulpes12y ago
Generally speaking, a non-static method cannot be called from a static method of the same class unless the latter is first passed a reference to an instance of that class.

This rather contrived example illustrates the last point:

using System;

class MyGreeting
{
public static void PrintGreeting(MyGreeting mg)
{
Console.WriteLine(mg.Greeting);
}

public string Greeting {get; set;}

public MyGreeting(string greeting)
{
Greeting = greeting;
}

public void BridgingMethod()
{
PrintGreeting(this);
}
}

class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MyGreeting mg = new MyGreeting("Hello World!");
mg.BridgingMethod();
Console.ReadKey();
}
}

The output is:

Hello World!