Cannot declare instance members in a static class in C

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I have a public static class and I am trying to access appSettings from my app config file in C  and I get the error described in the title   public static class employee       NameValueCollection appSetting   ConfigurationManager AppSettings          How do I get this to work

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Have you tried using the  static  storage class similar to    public static class employee       static NameValueCollection appSetting   ConfigurationManager AppSettings

User · Answer

As John Weldon said all members must be static in a static class   Try  public static class employee        static NameValueCollection appSetting   ConfigurationManager AppSettings

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If the class is declared static  all of the members must be static too   static NameValueCollection appSetting   ConfigurationManager AppSettings    Are you sure you want your employee class to be static  You almost certainly don t want that behaviour  You d probably be better off removing the static constraint from the class and the members

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It is not legal to declare an instance member in a static class   Static class s cannot be instantiated hence it makes no sense to have an instance members  they d never be accessible

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public static class Employee       public static string SomeSetting               get                        return ConfigurationManager AppSettings  SomeSetting                            Declare the property as static  as well  Also  Don t bother storing a private reference to ConfigurationManager AppSettings  ConfigurationManager is already a static class     If you feel that you must store a reference to appsettings  try  public static class Employee       private static NameValueCollection  appSettings ConfigurationManager AppSettings       public static NameValueCollection AppSettings   get   return  appSettings           It s good form to always give an explicit access specifier  private  public  etc  even though the default is private

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It says what it means   make your class non-static   public class employee     NameValueCollection appSetting   ConfigurationManager AppSettings          or the member static   public static class employee     static NameValueCollection appSetting   ConfigurationManager AppSettings

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I know this post is old but     I was able to do this  my problem was that I forgot to make my property static   public static class MyStaticClass       private static NonStaticObject  myObject   new NonStaticObject           property     public static NonStaticObject MyObject               get   return  myObject            set    myObject   value

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