Question

When I used the following code in C#…

int totalValue = 0;
int total = 0;
totalValue = int.Parse(Session["price"].ToString()) * int.Parse(Session["day"].ToString());

// This line causes the error
totalValue += Session["IsChauffeurUsed"].ToString().Equals("Yes", StringComparer.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) ? 80 : 0;

… I received this error :

Member ‘object.Equals(object, object)’ cannot be accessed with an instance reference; qualify it with a type name instead.

What does that error indicate?

Answer 1

Your argument for the second parameter of ‘Equals’ has the wrong type, so the compiler is identifying the wrong overload.

To fix it, change this:

StringComparer.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase

to this:

StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase