What is static key word? [Resolved]

You can't call the private method from out side the class . so you need to Make a Method as public , now you can call it.

abstract class A

{

Public static void F()

{

Console.WriteLine("Static Method")

}

}

Now we can use this code in Main

A.F();

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the use of the static variable is, if u want to share only one copy field to all instance field . While an instance of a class contains a separate copy of all instance fields of the class, there is only one copy of each static field.
We can be also defined Static methods in an abstract class. However, you cannot push a derived class to implement a static method. If you do like that, such a method would be useless. Static methods are invoked using type names, not instance variables. If I call BaseClass.MethodName, then BaseClass.MethodName will always be Called.

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we can't use the Static method using abstract class name:

like

abstract class A

{

   static F()

  {

     Console.WriteLine("Static Method")

  }

}

Now we can't use this code in Main

A.F();

Why it isn't possible?

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@Sivakumari: To answer your question, static keyword is used to define a variable whose only one instance can be used throughout the application. For example, you can define a Database connectionstring as static or any value that need to be used throughout the applicaiton as static.

Generally methods of the data access layer is defined as static and the same method is used thorughout the applicaiton from different different methods of business access layers.

Hope this will help. There are couple of more post related with static in this forum, just look at them and you should be able to know about it in details.

thank you

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Raja, USA

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Adding the answer of Raja.

When we are using the single value in the application and we want to modify it and reused by other objects, we can declare it as static,

But if we are going to use as retrieval purpose only then it's better to use constant e.g. pi = 3.1416

Static Example: count of online user in the website.

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hi all ,

if static class can access methods without instializing object ,then why
to use Non-static class .?

when static class could not be inherited ,why and where we use static class ?

thanks in advance

Naveen...

S.Naveen...

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It is not best practice to use the static class.
If you are going to use the same operation at various place, it is advisable to use the class. Because you will get the last value in static class method but new value in class object

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It is not best practice to use the static class.
If you are going to use the same operation at various place, it is advisable to use the class. Because you will get the last value in static class method but new value in class object

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Static Keyword:
The static keyword defines, that the class /property /method you declare as static does not require a previous instance of an object. In the other hand, a static method for example cannot use any instance method / instance property of the own object. Also, static defined things will be optimized by the compiler, for example that a static object is only written once in the memory and everything accesses to the same object.when we use static key word it means there is no need to create an instance of the object. static class including a static method can called class name.

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