Storing data within fields
In this section, we will be defining a selection of fields in the class to store information about a person.
Defining fields
Let’s say that we have decided that a person is composed of a name and a date of birth. We will encapsulate these two values inside a person, and the values will be visible outside it:
- Inside the
Personclass, write statements to declare two public fields for storing a person’s name and date of birth, as shown highlighted in the following code:public class Person : object { // fields public string? Name; public DateTime DateOfBirth; }
We have multiple choices for the data type of the DateOfBirth field. .NET 6 introduced the DateOnly type. This would store only the date without a time value. DateTime stores the date and time of when the person was born. An even better choice might be DateTimeOffset, which stores the date, time, and time zone. The choice depends...
