Question

The code below is in C# and I’m using Visual Studio 2010.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;

namespace FrontEnd
{
    class Flow
    {
        long i;
        private int x,y;
        public int X
        {
            get;set;
        }
        public int Y
        {
            get;set;
        }

        private void Flow()
        {
            X = x;
            Y = y;
        }

        public void NaturalNumbers(int x, int y)
        {
            for (i = 0; i < 9999; i++)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(i);
            }
            MessageBox.Show("done");
        }
    }
}

When I compile the above code I get this error:

Error: ‘Flow’: member names cannot be the same as their enclosing type

Why? How can I resolve this?

Answer 1

Method names which are same as the class name are called constructors. Constructors do not have a return type. So correct as:

private Flow()
{
   X = x;
   Y = y;
}

Or rename the function as:

private void DoFlow()
{
   X = x;
   Y = y;
}

Though the whole code does not make any sense to me.