nested types

[Wndr]

Hi Guys.
I need to declare an array of PortType in MainType.
Does any one has idea on how to do that?
Any help apreciated.

public struct PortType
{
public string Description;
public int Port;
}

public struct MainType
{
public string Name;
//this part has a problem, I want to declare it inside of this
type, but when I want to use it, there is no ref to Ports from Main[i].
public static PortType[] Ports = new PortType[999];
}

public static MainType[] Main = new MainType[100];


So is there any way to use like this:
Main[i].Ports[x].Description="t ext";

[Peter Duniho]

Re: nested types

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:46:54 -0700, Wndr <someone@yahoo. comwrote:

[...]
public struct MainType
{
public string Name;
//this part has a problem, I want to declare it inside of
this
type, but when I want to use it, there is no ref to Ports from Main[i].
public static PortType[] Ports = new PortType[999];
}
>
public static MainType[] Main = new MainType[100];
>
>
So is there any way to use like this:
Main[i].Ports[x].Description="t ext";

Not if you make the field "static". But if it's an instance member, then
it should work just as you seem to want it to.

Why did you mark it "static" if you want it to be an instance member?

Pete

[Wndr]

Re: nested types

Thank you for replay.
I am new in C#, that's why I called it static, sorry about that, what I
should change it to?
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:46:54 -0700, Wndr <someone@yahoo. comwrote:
>

>[...]
>public struct MainType
> {
> public string Name;
> //this part has a problem, I want to declare it inside of
>this
>type, but when I want to use it, there is no ref to Ports from Main[i].
> public static PortType[] Ports = new PortType[999];
> }
>>
>public static MainType[] Main = new MainType[100];
>>
>>
>So is there any way to use like this:
>Main[i].Ports[x].Description="t ext";

>
Not if you make the field "static". But if it's an instance member, then
it should work just as you seem to want it to.
>
Why did you mark it "static" if you want it to be an instance member?
>
Pete

[Peter Duniho]

Re: nested types

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:45:36 -0700, Wndr <someone@yahoo. comwrote:

Thank you for replay.
I am new in C#, that's why I called it static, sorry about that, what I
should change it to?

Just delete it. You didn't make your "Name" field "static", and you
shouldn't make anything else "static" unless you actually need it to be
"static".

For future reference, I'd recommend that as you learn C#, you not write
_any_ code for which you don't understand each and every character in that
code. If there's something in a line of code you don't understand, read
and study the documentation until you do understand it.

This is especially true for those lines of code that don't seem to be
doing what you want them to. :) Doing so would be a very effective way
to address specific problems in the code as well as getting a better
understanding of the language generally.

Pete

[Wndr]

Re: nested types

Yes you know in VB it was prity simple,
I just had to declare
Public Type PortType
Description As String
Port As Integer
End Type

Public Type MainType
Name As String
Ports() As PortType
End Type


Public Main() As MainType
and then I could use:
Main(Index).Por ts(i ).Description ="Test"
So I was trying to do like this in C#, everything worked fine until I got
to this point, it's not int, or string, or array, I was looking for this
info in books and on the web, but still coun't find it.
Thanks anyway.

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On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:45:36 -0700, Wndr <someone@yahoo. comwrote:
>

>Thank you for replay.
>I am new in C#, that's why I called it static, sorry about that, what I
>should change it to?

>
Just delete it. You didn't make your "Name" field "static", and you
shouldn't make anything else "static" unless you actually need it to be
"static".
>
For future reference, I'd recommend that as you learn C#, you not write
_any_ code for which you don't understand each and every character in that
code. If there's something in a line of code you don't understand, read
and study the documentation until you do understand it.
>
This is especially true for those lines of code that don't seem to be
doing what you want them to. :) Doing so would be a very effective way
to address specific problems in the code as well as getting a better
understanding of the language generally.
>
Pete

[Peter Duniho]

Re: nested types

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:23:19 -0700, Wndr <someone@yahoo. comwrote:

Yes you know in VB it was prity simple,
I just had to declare
Public Type PortType
Description As String
Port As Integer
End Type
>
Public Type MainType
Name As String
Ports() As PortType
End Type

Ironically, the correct C# code is more similar to the VB.NET code you
posted than is the C# code you apparently tried.