Question

I have class:

static class GetRole
    {
        public static string OfUser(string username)
        {
            string result="None";
            foreach (string key in WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings)
            {
                if (WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings[key].Contains(username))
                {
                    result = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings[key];
                    break;
                }
            }

            return result;
        }
    }

i would like to use it lik ethis

string role = GetRole.OfUser(username);

or like this even better:

string role = GetRole(username);

how do i do this?

Answer 1

i would like to use it like this

string role = GetRole.OfUser(username);

So do so; that appears to be correct. Did you try it?

or like this even better:

string role = GetRole(username);

That won’t work; you have to specify the method you’re calling as well as what class it comes from.

If you had a static void GetRole inside the same class as the code that you’re calling it from, then you could do that.

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However, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. The natural way to do “get the role of a user” is to call a method that belongs to the user itself. That in turn implies having a User class which you instantiate for each user.