Writing and calling methods

Methods are members of a type that execute a block of statements. They are functions that belong to a type.

Returning values from methods

Methods can return a single value or return nothing:

• A method that performs some actions but does not return a value indicates this with the void type before the name of the method.
• A method that performs some actions and returns a value indicates this with the type of the return value before the name of the method.

For example, in the next task, you will create two methods:

• WriteToConsole: This will perform an action (writing some text to the console), but it will return nothing from the method, indicated by the void keyword.
• GetOrigin: This will return a text value, indicated by the string keyword.

Let’s write the code:

1. In Person.cs, add statements to define the two methods that I described earlier, as shown in the following code: ...