Question

I’m following a tutorial on C# on making a text-based game and I ran into an issue right at the start. The following code:

namespace GameV2
{
    class Level
    {
        private static Room[,] rooms;

        #region Properties
        public static Room[,] Rooms
        {
            get { return rooms; }
        }
        #endregion


        public static void Initialize();
    *{*
    }

        private static *BuildLevel*();
    {
    }
        return false;


    }
*}*

gives me 3 errors.

Error 1 Invalid token ‘{‘ in class, struct, or interface member declaration

Error 2 Expected class, delegate, enum, interface, or struct
Error 3 Type or namespace definition, or end-of-file expected

The italics represent the errors in order. Fr some reason Visual c# express won’t let me use { in a method definition, and pushes my final } out of the code box. Any ideas on why this happens?

Answer 1

• You don’t have semicolons after methods. You may be confusing them for C
  method prototypes.

• BuildLevel should have a return type.

• All statements have to be inside methods, you can only have declarations outside of methods

This should compile:

namespace GameV2
{
    class Level
    {
        private static Room[,] rooms;

        #region Properties
        public static Room[,] Rooms
        {
            get { return rooms; }
        }
        #endregion


        public static void Initialize()
        {
        }

        private static bool BuildLevel()
        {
            return false;
        }

    }
}