Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

4.1. Methods and Parameter Modifiers

To begin this chapter, let's examine the details of defining methods. Just like the Main() method (see Chapter 3), your custom methods may or may not take parameters and may or may not return values to the caller. As you will see over the next several chapters, methods can be implemented within the scope of classes or structures (as well as prototyped within interface types) and may be decorated with various keywords (e.g., internal, virtual, public, new) to qualify their behavior. At this point in the text, each of our methods has followed this basic format:

// Recall that static methods can be called directly
// without creating a class instance.
class Program
{
  // static returnType MethodName(params) {...} ...