Error 1 'character': member names cannot be the same as their enclosing type

[msheekhah]

i'm teaching myself c#. i got through polymophism, pointers, linked lists, and data structures in C++ in college decades ago. however, I'm spacing on the easy shit it seems. Can someone help me out?

using System;
...
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication4
{
...

public class character
{
protected Hashtable charSheet = new Hashtable();
protected Hashtable mutantStats = new Hashtable();
protected Hashtable mutantPower = new Hashtable();

        public void character()
        {
            charSheet.Add("Name", "");
            ...
            mutantStats.Add("Tactics", "");
        }
        public void character(string nm,int xp,int lvl,int str,int dex,int sta,int spe,int hea,int soa,int def)
        {
            charSheet.Add("Name", nm);
            ...
            mutantStats.Add("Defense", "");
        }
        
        // constructors

      ...

[Pete OHanlon]

The error does tell you what it the problem is. Basically, you can't have a method name that's exactly the same as the class name. BTW - if you're using .NET 2 (or later), you have better options than Hashtable available to you. You may want to use the generic Dictionary class.

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[Henry Minute]

If public void character() and public void character(string nm,int xp,int lvl,int str,int dex,int sta,int spe,int hea,int soa,int def), are meant to be constructors remove the void. Leaving just public character(...... Constructors do not have a return type. :)

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[msheekhah]

yeah fixed. thanks. getting better at getting bugs fixed using MSDN search. hopefully keep the stupid shit to a minimum.