Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 3. Writing methods and applying scope

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Creating methods

• Pass information to a method.

• Returning data from a method

• Defining local scope

• Using optional parameters and named arguments

In Chapter 2 you learned how to declare variables, how to create expressions using operators, and how precedence and associativity control the way in which expressions containing multiple operators are evaluated. In this chapter, you’ll learn about methods. You’ll see how to declare and call methods, and you’ll also learn how to use arguments and parameters to pass information to a method as well as return information from a method by using a return statement. You’ll see how to step into and out of methods by using ...