#SIMPLE ADDRESS BOOK SOFTWARE HOW TO#

Check out the code below to see how to do this. Now that we have a framework to create a person object and a list to hold these people, it is time to add a method to the Program class to add a person to the People list. Note: This list will be empty every time the application starts so, therefore, the application will not persist data or in other words, it will not keep the people the user enters into the address book after the application closes. public static List People = new List() ДЄbove is the line of code we need to add above the Main method that will create an empty list of Person objects that are created from the Person class. See the following code to see how to do this. Above the Main method, we are going to add a public static list that holds a list of Person objects.

Now that we have a way to define a person to store in the address book we need somewhere to store all of these people. We also have a string array property to hold the two addresses. In the above code, you will see that in our Person class we have a string property for each the first name, last name, and phone number. See the code below to see how we set this up. This person class will be the framework for each person that will be stored in the address book. The first thing we want to do after creating a blank console application is to add a person class under the Program class. For more information on how to do this, check out my how-to guide here. To get started, we first need to create an empty C# console application in Visual Studio. I hope to add that functionality at a later date when we discuss working with files or databases. This means that once the application closes the user will lose the information stored in the address book and the address book will always be empty when the application starts. One last thing, this address book will not persist data. If for some reason, the user wants to remove a person from the address book then we want to be able to do so. We want the user to be able to add more people to this address book and be able to list them out. It will hold their phone number and also up to 2 addresses for each person. We want to create an address book that will hold a first and last name of each person. I am also going to be trying something new with this tutorial where I am asking you to implement what is missing. We will see how to create lists and arrays and use them in a real world application such as this simple address book. In todayвЂ™s tutorial, we are going to make a simple address book in C#.

Simple address book software