public static void BasicClasses()
{
Console.WriteLine("\nBASIC CLASSES");
// Get input from the user
Console.WriteLine("What is your name?");
string name = Console.ReadLine();
// Create instance
Person man; // allocate the reference
man = new Person(name, Gender.MALE); // allocate the object
// PersonsNamespace.Person man = new PersonsNamespace.Person();
man.Greet();
man.AgeAFewYears(10);
}
public static void serialize(Person p)
{
XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(p.GetType());
/*This is known as a resource acquisition statement. It's syntax:
using (ResourceType resource = expression) {statement}
is identical to:
ResourceType resource = expression;
try {
statement;
}
finally {
if (resource != null) ((IDisposable)resource).Dispose();
} */
Console.WriteLine("Serializing " + p.Name);
using ( TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter( Serializer.filepath ) )
/* Streamwriter inherits from the ABSTRACT class, textwriter.
The @ sign is a verbatim string literal to ignore escape characters.*/
{
xmlSerializer.Serialize(writer, p);
}
}