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user9993

Reputation: 6170

C# Beginner problems

I have a "Debug" class, which simply prints information to the console etc. From the rest of the code I want to be able to call the methods within it, but so far it's only partly working.

Calling dc.Print() works fine, but as soon as I call dc.Print(dc.GetEventsLogged()) I get a red line with the message

"The best overloaded method match has some invalid arguments" as well as Argument 1: cannot convert from 'int' to 'string'.

Basically: Why are my arguments to dc.Print wrong? Also, what can I do about "cannot convert from int to string? I tried .ToString but that didn't work either.

This is my "Debug.cs" class:

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


namespace Test
{
    public class Debug
    {
        private int events_logged;

        public Debug()
        {
            events_logged = 0;
        }

        public void Print(string Message)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("[" + DateTime.UtcNow + "] " + Message);
            events_logged++;
        }


        public int GetEventsLogged()
        {
        return events_logged;
        }
    }
}

And in my "Program.cs" class I have:

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

namespace Test
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Debug dc = new Debug();
            dc.Print("Test");
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 273

Answers (5)

Vincent Hellin
Vincent Hellin

Reputation: 21

Your method Print expects an argument of type String. When you call dc.Print(dc.GetEventsLogged()), your actually give an int because your method GetEventsLogged() returns an int.

Upvotes: 1

Nasir Mahmood
Nasir Mahmood

Reputation: 1505

try dc.Print(dc.GetEventsLogged().toString()) because GetEventsLogged() is of int type and Print(string Message) looking for string input.

Upvotes: 1

Maxim Zhukov
Maxim Zhukov

Reputation: 10140

    public string GetEventsLogged()
    {
        return events_logged.ToString();
    }

Upvotes: 0

Belogix
Belogix

Reputation: 8147

The reason you are seeing the error is because GetEventsLogged() returns an int whereas Print() expects you to pass in a string. Therefore you need to the return from int to string and you were on the right track with ToString(). This will do what you want to achieve:

dc.Print(dc.GetEventsLogged().ToString());

Upvotes: 7

Sam Leach
Sam Leach

Reputation: 12956

dc.Print() wants a string argument and dc.GetEventsLogged() returns an int. You need to ToString() the int so that the types match.

int numberOfEventsLogged = dc.GetEventsLogged();

string numberOfEventsLoggedAsString = numberOfEventsLogged.ToString();

dc.Print(numberOfEventsLoggedAsString)

Upvotes: 2

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