Accessing class member from static method

Question

I know there are a lot of threads talking about this but so far I haven\'t found one that helps my situation directly. I have members of the class that I need to access fro

Answer 1

You simply can't do it that way. Static methods cannot access non static fields.

You can either make Summary static

public class SomeCoolClass
{
    public static string Summary = "I'm telling you";

    public void DoSomeMethod()
    {
        string myInterval = SomeCoolClass.Summary + " this is what happened!";
    }

    public static void DoSomeOtherMethod()
    {
        string myInterval = SomeCoolClass.Summary + " it didn't happen!";
    }
}

Or you can pass an instance of SomeCoolClass to DoSomeOtherMethod and call Summary from the instance you just passed :

public class SomeCoolClass
{
    public string Summary = "I'm telling you";

    public void DoSomeMethod()
    {
        string myInterval = this.Summary + " this is what happened!";
    }

    public static void DoSomeOtherMethod(SomeCoolClass instance)
    {
        string myInterval = instance.Summary + " it didn't happen!";
    }
}

Anyway I can't really see the goal you're trying to reach.