Variable declarations following if statements

Question

An issue came up on another forum and I knew how to fix it, but it revealed a feature of the compiler peculiar to me. The person was getting the error \"Embedded statement c

Answer 1

Adding the closing and opening braces on the else part of the if helped me like i have done below as opposed to what i was doing before adding them;

Before: this caused the error:

protected void btnAdd_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (btnAdd.Text == "ADD")
        {

            CATEGORY cat = new CATEGORY
            {

                NAME = tbxCategory.Text.Trim(),
                TOTALSALEVALUE = tbxSaleValue.Text.Trim(),
                PROFIT = tbxProfit.Text.Trim()

            };
            dm.AddCategory(cat, tbxCategory.Text.Trim());
        }
        else
        // missing brackets - this was causing the error
            var c = getCategory();
            c.NAME = tbxCategory.Text.Trim();
            c.TOTALSALEVALUE = tbxSaleValue.Text.Trim();
            c.PROFIT = tbxProfit.Text.Trim();
            dm.UpdateCategory(c);

        btnSearchCat_Click(btnSearchCat, e);
    }

After: Added brackets in the else branch

protected void btnAdd_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (btnAdd.Text == "ADD")
        {

            CATEGORY cat = new CATEGORY
            {

                NAME = tbxCategory.Text.Trim(),
                TOTALSALEVALUE = tbxSaleValue.Text.Trim(),
                PROFIT = tbxProfit.Text.Trim()

            };
            dm.AddCategory(cat, tbxCategory.Text.Trim());
        }
        else
        {
            var c = getCategory();
            c.NAME = tbxCategory.Text.Trim();
            c.TOTALSALEVALUE = tbxSaleValue.Text.Trim();
            c.PROFIT = tbxProfit.Text.Trim();
            dm.UpdateCategory(c);
        }
        btnSearchCat_Click(btnSearchCat, e);
    }