Creating an instance of a class

Marc

12y1.2kVisual Basic .NET

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?

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Vulpes12y ago
Accepted 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
}
}
}
Marc12y ago
That works. Thanks Vulpes! Been a big help!
Vulpes12y ago
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.
Marc12y ago
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.
Vulpes12y ago
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);
Vulpes12y ago
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);
}
}
}