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

Posted by marcolamoon
marcolamoon
16,915 Points

HELP with challenge !!!

question " In the VideoGamesRepository.cs file, add a GetVideoGames method to the VideoGamesRepository class.

The GetVideoGames method shouldn't accept any parameters.
The GetVideoGames method should return the _videoGames private static field.

" im not sure what im doing wrong. help will be great

VideoGamesRepository.cs 
using Treehouse.Models;

namespace Treehouse.Data
{
    public class VideoGamesRepository
    {
        private static VideoGame[] _videoGames = new VideoGame[]
        {
        // TODO Add GetVideoGames method 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
            }
        };
        public VideoGame GetVideoGames(int id)
        {
         return videoGame;
        // TODO Add GetVideoGame method

        }

    }
  }
}
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

adot63
adot63
5,613 Points
adot63
adot63
5,613 Points

You are missing the "[]" symbol for your return type. This worked for me:

    public VideoGame[] GetVideoGames()
    {
       return _videoGames;
    }
Carel Du Plessis
PLUS
Carel Du Plessis
Courses Plus Student 16,356 Points
Carel Du Plessis
Carel Du Plessis
Courses Plus Student 16,356 Points

I wish they do number their steps in the instructions to make it more clear.

instead of bullet points.