Question

I am using visual studio 2010.

It seems that out of nowhere, I can’t use Console.WriteLine()

For example now I do:

• File -> New project
• Visual C# -> Console Application

Inside the Main method. Everything works fine. This works as expected:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Test
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Works!");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Now when I add a new class, by clicking Test -> Add -> Class

Inside this new class I can’t call Console.Writeline() or anything rather.

Visual studio is already not suggesting it, but I ran it just in case and so that I could share the error and it gave me:

Error   1   El token '(' no es válido en una clase, un struct o una declaración de miembro de interfaz  c:\users\trufa\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Test\Test\Class1.cs    10  26  Test

The translation would be:

The token "(" is not valid in a class, a struct, or interface member declaration...

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

It really seamed to happen out of nowhere.

_{I didn’t think the question was for superuser but let me know if you think otherwise.}

EDIT, Full code as is:

Program.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Test
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Works!");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Class1.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Test
{

    class Class1
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Works!");//this one gives me the error
    }
}

Just in case:

Answer 1

Have you typed the code directly into the class rather than placing in a method e.g?

public class Class1
{
   Console.WriteLine();
}

Gives me the error

Error 32 Invalid token ‘(‘ in class, struct, or interface member
declaration …\Class1.cs 10 21 ConsoleTester

EDIT

Place the call inside a method, then it will compile. You can’t place calls like that directly in the class itself.

public class Class1
{
   public void Test()
   {
      Console.WriteLine();
   }
}