Question

I have a class that looks like this:

public static class ReferenceData
{

    public static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetAnswerType()
    {
        return new[]
            {
                new SelectListItem { Value = "1", Text = "1 answer"  },
                new SelectListItem { Value = "2", Text = "2 answers" },
                new SelectListItem { Value = "3", Text = "3 answers" }
            };
    }

    public static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetDatastore()
    {
        return new[]
            {
                new SelectListItem { Value = "DEV", Text = "Development"  },
                new SelectListItem { Value = "DC1", Text = "Production" }
            };
    }
    public static string GetDatastoreText(string datastoreValue)
    {
        return GetDatastore().Single(s => s.Value == datastoreValue).Text;
    }
    public static string GetDatastoreValue(string datastoreText)
    {
        return GetDatastore().Single(s => s.Text == datastoreText).Value;
    }

    // Lots more here
    // Lots more here

}

There’s a lot more that I didn’t show above.

Currently all of the class information is in one file. However I would like to split this into multiple files. Is there some way that I can spread the contents of the ReferenceData class across more than one file?

Answer 1

Yes, include the keyword partial in the class declaration in every file where you do so.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wa80x488.aspx