static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Declaring a variable of type Employee (which is a class) and
//instanciating a new instance of Employee and assigning it to the variable
//Using the NEW keyword means that memory will get allocated on the Heap for that class
Employee myEmployee = new Employee();
//Use the properties to assign values.
myEmployee.FirstName = "David";
myEmployee.LastName = "Barnes";
myEmployee.WeeklySalary = 2048.34m;
//Output the first name of the employee using the property
Console.WriteLine(myEmployee.FirstName);
//Output the entire employee, which will call the ToString method implicitly
//This would work even without overriding the ToString method in the Employee class,
//however it would only spit out the namespace and name of class instead of something useful.
Console.WriteLine(myEmployee);
//Create an array of type Employee to hold a bunch of Employees
Employee[] employees = new Employee[10];
//Assign values to the array. Each spot needs to contain an instance of an Employee
employees[0] = new Employee("James", "Kirk", 453.00m);
employees[1] = new Employee("Jean-Luc", "Picard", 290.00m);
employees[2] = new Employee("Benjamin", "Sisko", 530.00m);
employees[3] = new Employee("Kathryn", "Janeway", 359.00m);
employees[4] = new Employee("Johnathan", "Archer", 743.00m);
//A foreach loop. It is usefull for doing a collection of objects.
//Each object in the array 'employees' will get assigned to the local
//variable 'employee' inside the loop.
foreach (Employee employee in employees)
{
//Run a check to make sure the spot in the array is not empty
if (employee != null)
{
//Print the employee
Console.WriteLine(employee.ToString() + " " + employee.YearlySalary());
}
}
//Use the CSVProcessor method that we wrote into main to load the
//employees from the csv file
ImportCSV("employees.csv", employees);
//Instanciate a ne UI class
UserInterface ui = new UserInterface();
//Get the user input from the UI class
//int choice = ui.GetUserInput();
//Could use the instance one above, but to demonstrate using a static
//class, we are calling the static version.
//If you HATE static classes and want to avoid them, feel free to
//comment the below line, and uncomment the above line.
int choice = StaticUserInterface.GetUserInput();
//While the choice that they entered is not 2, we will loop to
//continue to get the next choice of what they want to do.
while (choice != 2)
{
//If the chioce they made is 1, (Which for us is the only choice)
if (choice == 1)
{
//Create a string to concat the output
string allOutput = "";
//Loop through all the employees just like above only instead of
//writing out the employees, we are concating them together.
foreach (Employee employee in employees)
{
if (employee != null)
{
allOutput += employee.ToString() + " " +
employee.YearlySalary() +
Environment.NewLine;
}
}
//Once the concat is done, have the UI class print out the result
ui.PrintAllOutput(allOutput);
}
//Get the next choice from the user.
choice = ui.GetUserInput();
}
}