Question

I have a simple business manager facade that should just persist some inventory information. However I keep getting the error that “Home.Services.InventorySvc” is a type being used as a variable.

My facade code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Home.Domain;
using Home.Services;

namespace Home.Business
{
    public class InventoryMngr
    {
        public void Create(CreateInventory inv) 
        {
            Factory factory = Factory.GetInstance();
            InventorySvc invSvc =
            (InventorySvc)factory.GetService(
            (InventorySvc).Name);
            invSvc.CreateInventory(inv);
        }
    }
} 

The InventorySvc code

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

namespace Home.Services
{
    public interface InventorySvc : IService
    {
        void CreateInventory(CreateInventory createinventory);
    }
}

Answer 1

You are using (InventorySvc).Name which is the same as InventorySvc.Name, so that would be accessing a static member of the InventorySvc class. As it’s not a class but an interface, it can’t have static members.