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

Zeljko Porobija
Zeljko Porobija
11,491 Points
Posted by Zeljko Porobija
Zeljko Porobija
11,491 Points

VideoGamesRepository issue

I am stuck on the second step of this challenge, getting these two errors: VideoGamesRepository.cs(51,16): error CS1520: Class, struct, or interface method must have a return type VideoGamesRepository.cs(65,246): error CS1525: Unexpected symbol `end-of-file' I know that there is something simple in question, but I cannot find what. Thanks for your help!

VideoGamesRepository.cs 
using Treehouse.Models;

namespace Treehouse.Data
{
    public class VideoGamesRepository
    {
        // TODO Add GetVideoGames method

        // 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 + ")";
            }
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

You need to paste your code into your post if you want us to take a look at it. That said I will try to give you some hints just based on the error messages.

The first error message usually means that you defined a method without defining a return type, whenever you define a method you have to specify what type of object the method will return, and use void if the method does not return anything. So make sure that whatever methods you have defined specifies what type of object they return in their declaration.

The second error is a bit trickier to diagnose without seeing your code, my guess would be that you are missing a bracket or something along those lines somewhere in your code, that is the most common cause of that error as far as I can gather.

Zeljko Porobija
Zeljko Porobija
11,491 Points
Zeljko Porobija
Zeljko Porobija
11,491 Points

I've ticked the box "Include my code", but - nothing happened. Anyway, I sorted out the issue on my own - it was about array and, yep, about a bracket. :-) Thanks for your kind response!