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C# ASP.NET MVC Basics Modeling and Presenting Data Adding Repository Methods

Posted by Amy Shah
Amy Shah
25,337 Points

I was not sure what I was doing wrong here

What am I doing wrong here?

VideoGamesRepository.cs 
using Treehouse.Models;

namespace Treehouse.Data
{
    class VideoGamesRepository
    {
        // TODO Add GetVideoGames method
        private static GetVideoGames()
        {
            return _videoGames;
        };

        // TODO Add GetVideoGame method

        private static VideoGame[] _videoGames = new VideoGame[]
        {
            new VideoGame()
            {
                Id = 1,
                Title = "Super Mario 64",
                Description = "Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.",
                Characters = new string[]
                {
                    "Mario",
                    "Princess Peach",
                    "Bowser",
                    "Toad",
                    "Yoshi"
                },
                Publisher = "Nintendo",
                Favorite = true
            },
            new VideoGame()
            {
                Id = 2,
                Title = "Mario Kart 64",
                Description = "Mario Kart 64 is a 1996 go-kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console.",
                Characters = new string[]
                {
                    "Mario",
                    "Princess Peach",
                    "Bowser",
                    "Toad",
                    "Yoshi"
                },
                Publisher = "Nintendo",
                Favorite = false
            }
        };
    }
}
VideoGame.cs 
namespace Treehouse.Models
{
    // Don't make any changes to this class!
    public class VideoGame
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string Description { get; set; }
        public string[] Characters { get; set; }
        public string Publisher { get; set; }
        public bool Favorite { get; set; }

        public string DisplayText
        {
            get
            {
                return Title + " (" + Publisher + ")";
            }
        }
    }
}

2 Answers

Henrique Vignon
PLUS
Henrique Vignon
Courses Plus Student 6,415 Points
Henrique Vignon
Henrique Vignon
Courses Plus Student 6,415 Points

The challenge asks you to create a method to return the private static field _videoGames, and in your method you didn't set any return type, plus the method should not be static nor private :)

        public VideoGame[] GetVideoGames()
        {
            return _videoGames;
        }

notice how I constructed it, it's public because other classes should be able to access the method, then I set the return type which should be the same type of whatever it is you'll be returning, in this case a VideoGame array.

Amy Shah
Amy Shah
25,337 Points
Amy Shah
Amy Shah
25,337 Points

thank you Henrique. this explanation made a lot of sense