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C# Querying With LINQ Now You're Querying Using Query Syntax

Yiu Ming Lai
Yiu Ming Lai
5,861 Points
Posted by Yiu Ming Lai
Yiu Ming Lai
5,861 Points

Need Help

I am sitting this. what dose it mean.

NumberAnalysis.cs(8,22): error CS0542: `Treehouse.CodeChallenges.NumberAnalysis.NumberAnalysis': member names cannot be the same as their enclosing type NumberAnalysis.cs(6,18): (Location of the symbol related to previous error) Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings

NumberAnalysis.cs 
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class NumberAnalysis
    {
        public class NumberAnalysis
        {
            private List<int> _numbers;
            public NumberAnalysis()
            {
                _numbers = new List<int> { 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 };
            }

            public IEnumerable<int> NumbersGreaterThanFive()
            {
                IEnumerable<int> numbersGreaterThanFive = from n in _numbers where n > 5 select n;
                return numbersGreaterThanFive;
            }
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

:point_right: You've put another class definition inside the original class definition.

Copy/paste error, perhaps? Just remove the extra class definition and you should be good.