Question

I have the following method:

public string Phase(string phase)
{
    return "Phase 1";
}

The thing is I need it to output 2 strings in 2 different labels:

“Phase 1”

“Phase 2”

Is there a way for me to do this?

Answer 1

You have a few options to return multiple values.

For example, you could return an IEnumerable<string> (or some other collection). You could also return a Tuple<string,string>.

public IEnumerable<string> Phase()
{
    yield return "Phase 1";
    yield return "Phase 2";
}

Or

public Tuple<string,string> Phase()
{
    return Tuple.Create("Phase 1", "Phase 2");
}

That being said, it might be simpler to use two separate methods (or properties) to return each string, instead of trying to force it into a single method call.

Another alternative would be to pass in an argument which allowed the method to choose which label to return:

public string Phase(int phase)
{
    switch(phase)
    {
        default:
            return "Phase 1";
        case 2:
            return "Phase 2";
    }

    // Or just
    // return "Phase " + phase.ToString();

}

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Edit:

Given your comments, I would recommend a property that just returned an array:

public string[] Phases
{
    get { return new[] { "Phase 1", "Phase 2" }; }
}

You could then use this as:

var phases = this.month1.Phases;
this.lblPhase.Text = phases[0];
this.lblPhase2.Text = phases[1];