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C#

Posted by Chris Gauthier
Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 Points

C# Objects and Visual Studio

Hello, I have a rather curious problem. Im following along with the C# objects course and entering the code into visual studio 2015 on my local dev environment.

Map.cs :
namespace TreehouseDefense 
{
    public class Map
    {
        public int Width;
        private int height;

    }
}

Game.cs:
namespace TreehouseDefense
{
    class Game 
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            Map map = new Map();
            map.Width = 10;
        }
    }

For some reason, Intellisence is not showing me the Map object and map.Width also doesn't show up in my intellisence.

Anybody have a tip?

2 Answers

James Churchill
STAFF
James Churchill
Treehouse Teacher
James Churchill
James Churchill
Treehouse Teacher

Chris,

Did you create a new project using the "New Project" dialog (from the top menu it's "File > New > Project")?

For two C# files to be "aware" of each other in Visual Studio, they need to be part of the same project. You can verify the existence of a project by looking for a .csproj file in the folder that contains your .cs files.

I hope this helps resolve your issue. If it doesn't, let me know, and we'll try something else :)

Thanks ~James

Chris Gauthier
PLUS
Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 Points
Chris Gauthier
Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 Points

This helped a little. I now have a visual studio solution that has 2 projects. 1) A TowerDefence project that contains all the classes referenced to in the C# objects tower defence game. 2) A second project that is a console project so I can run instances of classes from the 1st project. I have a reference from project 1 in project 2, but I can't see the classes from project 1 in the project 2 console.

(I also have a using statement to use the project 1 in the project 2)