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Question

Everywhere I have researched this should work and yet it does not... I am basically trying to get my variable stores in one class to work on my main form. I keep getting an error code of

Cannot implicitly convert type string to Form1.Employee

My form code

Employee FirstName = new Employee();
if (Directions.Text == "Please Enter Employee First Name")
{
    FirstName = Info.Text;
    Directions.Text = "Please Enter Employee Last Name";
}

In my second class I have

public class Employee
{
    public string FirstName;
}

Answer 1

Employee employee = new Employee();
if (Directions.Text == "Please Enter Employee First Name")
{
    employee.FirstName = Info.Text;
    Directions.Text = "Please Enter Employee Last Name";
}

Answer 2

In your first code, FirstName is an instance of an Employee class. In your

FirstName = Info.Text;

line, you try to assign .Text (which is string ) property to your class instance which is not possible. That's why compiler says;

Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to Employee

You can assign it's FirstName field of your instance to your Info.Text value. Like;

FirstName.FirstName = Info.Text;

Of course would be better if you put a better name on your Employee instance.

Answer 3

Problem is in following line since FirstName is an instance of Employee.

FirstName = Info.Text;

It should be

FirstName.FirstName = Info.Text;

FirstName before dot(.) is the instance of Employee Class and
FirstName after dot(.) is the field of Employee class