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Cannot assign to ' ' because it is a 'method group' beginner


I'm practicing on setters and getters, got this error message:

Cannot assign to 'GetnewName' because it is a'method group'

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace ConsoleApp1
{

    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Bird b = new Bird();
            b.GetnewName = "Tweety";
            b.Chirp();

            Bird b2 = new Bird();
            b2.GetnewName = "Woody";
            b2.Chirp();
        }
    }
    public class Bird
    {
        private string name;
        private double weight = 30.5d;

        public void SetName(string newName)
        {
            if (newName != null && newName.Length > 2)
            {
                System.Console.WriteLine("Bird already has a name");
                this.name = newName;
            }
            else if (newName.Length < 3)
            {
                System.Console.WriteLine("New name must be longer than two chars");
            }
            else
            {
                name = newName;
            }
        }

        public string GetnewName()
        {
            return this.name;
        }

    public void Chirp()
        {
            System.Console.WriteLine(name + " says chirp!");
        }
    }
}

Solution

  • You need to set name using the SetName method.

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Threading.Tasks;
    
    namespace ConsoleApp1
    {
    
        public class Program
        {
            public static void Main(string[] args)
            {
                Bird b = new Bird();
                b.SetName("Tweety");
                b.Chirp();
    
                Bird b2 = new Bird();
                b2.SetName("Woody");
                b2.Chirp();
    
                Console.ReadLine();
            }
        }
        public class Bird
        {
            private string name;
            private double weight = 30.5d;
    
            public void SetName(string newName)
            {
                if (newName != null && newName.Length > 2)
                {
                    System.Console.WriteLine("Bird already has a name");
                    this.name = newName;
                }
                else if (newName.Length < 3)
                {
                    System.Console.WriteLine("New name must be longer than two chars");
                }
                else
                {
                    name = newName;
                }
            }
    
            public string GetnewName()
            {
                return this.name;
            }
    
            public void Chirp()
            {
                System.Console.WriteLine(name + " says chirp!");
            }
        }
    }