C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

Writing and calling methods

Methods are type members that execute a block of statements. A method that performs some actions but does not return a value is marked as returning void. A method that performs some actions and returns a value is marked as returning the type of that return value.

Inside the Person class, statically import the System.Console type and then add the following code:

// methods
public void WriteToConsole()
{
    WriteLine($"{Name} was born on {DateOfBirth:dddd, d MMMM yyyy}");
}
public string GetOrigin()
{
    return $"{Name} was born on {HomePlanet}";
}

Inside the Main method, add the following code:

p1.WriteToConsole();
WriteLine(p1.GetOrigin());

Run the application and view the output:

Bob Smith was born on Wednesday, 22 December 1965 ...