Question

I am trying to reference some random users generated in one class I made in another class where I am going to use them.

public static void RandUserName(string domain, string FullName, string Email)
            {
                string firstName = "";
                string lastName = "";
                string phone = "";
                RandomUserName(domain, firstName, lastName, Email, phone);
                FullName = String.Format("{0} {1}.com", firstName, lastName);
        }

Public static void RandName(string FirstName, string LastName)
        {            
            string[] maleNames = new string [1000]{"aaron", "abdul", "abe", "abel"}; 
            string[] femaleNames = new string [1000] {"abby", "abigail", "ada"};
            string[] lastNames = new string[1000] {"abbott", "acevedo", "acosta"};

Random rand = new Random(DateTime.Now.Second);
            if (rand.Next(1, 2) == 1)
            {
                FirstName = maleNames[rand.Next(0, maleNames.Length-1)];
            }
            else
            {
                FirstName = femaleNames[rand.Next(0, femaleNames.Length-1)];
            }
        }

 public static string RandomUserName(string Domain, string FirstName, string LastName, string Email, string phone)
        {
            RandName(FirstName, LastName);
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Domain))
            {
                Domain = String.Format("{0}{1}.com", FirstName, LastName);
            }

            Email = "Tester" + LastName + "@" + Domain;
            phone = "850-555-1234";
            return FirstName;
        }

Here is where I want to reference these names to in VB.net. I am trying to translate this to c#, these come from a request I am making:

                RandInfo.RandomUserName(Domain, .PrimaryContact.FirstName, .PrimaryContact.LastName, .PrimaryContact.Email, .PrimaryContact.Phone)
                RandInfo.RandomUserName(Domain, .BillingContact.FirstName, .BillingContact.LastName, .BillingContact.Email, .BillingContact.Phone)
                RandInfo.RandomUserName(Domain, .TechContact.FirstName, .TechContact.LastName, .TechContact.Email, .TechContact.Phone)
                RandInfo.RandomUserName(Domain, .EmergencyContact.FirstName, .EmergencyContact.LastName, .EmergencyContact.Email, .EmergencyContact.Phone)

Sorry if all this is confusing! Please ask any questions you have to understand and help!

Answer 1

First of all: i think you may have misunderstood the concept of functions/method. The void in your ‘RandUserName’ function is where you would declare the return type.

A small example:

public string GetFullName(string firstName, string lastName)
{
    return firstName + " " + lastName;
}

A call like this:

GetFullName("John", "Doe")

would return “John Doe”. An (ugly) alternative way would be to declare the parameters in your methods as out parameters, but i would try to avoid that.

What you want to achieve can be done in various way, i would start with designing a User class with properties for FirstName, LastName, Phone and so on.

Then you could create a function that generates instances of this class, its properties filled with random values.
But i guess you would have to put some effort into it for yourself.