Getting a error while create a simple class

Question

namespace AccountOrganizer
{
public class SetName
{
string[] MaleNames =
{ "Jack",
"Micheal",
"Mike",
"Jordan",
"James",
"William",
"David",
"Richard",
"Charles",
"Daniel",
"Kevin",
"Brian",
"George",
"Edward",
"Ronald",
"Jason",
"Jeffrey",
};
List<string> MaleNameList = new List<string>(MaleNames);
Random r = new Random();
int Random = r.Next(0, MaleNameList.Count());
string sethename = MaleNameList[Random];
}
}

I get an error on line 25 28 and 30 i dont really understand why,
am i not allowed to create a list and a random object in a class?

Sachin Singh · Answer

you can use getters and setters if you don't want to use methods and the reason of error is due to the fact that you can not an instance variable to initialize another instance variable MaleNames and MaleNameList in your case.

Sachin Singh · Answer

how do you expect this to work, you need to declare a method public class SetName { public List MaleNameList { get; set; } string[] MaleNames = { "Jack" , "Micheal" , "Mike" , "Jordan" , "James" , "William" , "David" , "Richard" , "Charles" , "Daniel" , "Kevin" , "Brian" , "George" , "Edward" , "Ronald" , "Jason" , "Jeffrey" , }; public void GetRandom() { List MaleNameList = MaleNames.ToList(); // it is not required //though Random r = new Random(); int Random = r.Next(0, MaleNames.Count()); string sethename = MaleNameList[Random]; } }

Amit Gupta · Answer

Remove code from line 25-30 and use below one public string GetRandom() { int _random = new Random().Next(0, MaleNames.Count); return MaleNames[_random]; }

Amit Gupta · Answer

In addition to what @sachin said, you had declared int Random which is a Random class name, you never use a class name as a variable name, change it to int _random and string sethename = MaleNameList[_random];

osyris zosar · Answer

How do i return "setthename" since it is a void, and why do i need to declare a method?