Method with Multiple Return Types

Question

I\'ve looked through many questions that are similar to this, but none of them really touched on what I precisely want to do. What I am trying to do is read from an external sou

Answer 1

In C# 7 you have the option to return multiple values from a method like this:

public (string SomeString, int SomeInt) DoSomething() {... }

You can get the values like this:

var result = DoSomething();
Console.WriteLine(result.SomeString);
Console.WriteLine(result.SomeInt.ToString());

Or

(var someString, var someInt) = DoSomething();
Console.WriteLine(someString);
Console.WriteLine(someInt.ToString());

This works below the surface with a Tuple and you are not restricted to only 2 values. I don't know how many you can return but I suggest when you need to return that many values, create a class. More info: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0/