I don't know why I'm getting this error. Seems elementary. Anyway I have a singleton class called EmailSender. The code below is short and easy. The issue is that I can't use sender in the MainWindow class. Anything I try such as sender.Send() is treated as though I've done asdafsafas.Send(). It's treated as though it's a random string of characters. Don't know why this is happening.
using System;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace SendMail
{
public partial class MainWindow : Form
{
#region Private variables
private MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
private EmailSender sender = EmailSender.GetInstance();
#endregion
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private MailMessage PrepareMailMessage()
{
return msg;
}
private void btnSend_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}
}
Here is the GetInstance method:
public static EmailSender GetInstance()
{
return _instance ?? (_instance = new EmailSender());
}
This is because of the way you have this method defined (sender is a parameter). It's finding the method argument first, not your class level variable. You can qualify this:
private void btnSend_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// sender here is the "(object sender, " paramater, so it's defined
// as system object.
// use this instead:
this.sender.Send(); // The "this" will make the class find the instance level variable instead of using the "object sender" argument
}