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Paul Frivold
Paul Frivold
1,073 Points
Posted by Paul Frivold
Paul Frivold
1,073 Points

The type 'GameResult' already contains a definition for 'HomeOrAway'

Working my way through C# streams and data processing, but I've gotten a bit confused. I'll post my code here and explain the problem below.

namespace SoccerStats {
    public class GameResult {
        public DateTime GameDate { get; set; }
        public string TeamName { get; set; }
        public HomeOrAway HomeOrAway { get; set; }

        public enum HomeOrAway {
            Home,
            Away
        }
    }
}

As far as I can tell, I did exactly what the instructor did when creating an enum called HomeOrAway, but I'm getting this error message: The type 'GameResult' already contains a definition for 'HomeOrAway'

The error message disappears if I change the 

public HomeOrAway HomeOrAway {get; set; }

toC#

public HomeOrAway AnythingElse { get; set; }

But it seems to work perfectly in the instructors video.... I'm confused.

1 Answer

Roman Fincher
Roman Fincher
18,267 Points
Roman Fincher
Roman Fincher
18,267 Points

You are trying to define HomeOrAway as both an enum and a property in the GameResult class. The enum should not be a part of GameResult, but rather just a member of the SoccerStats namespace (even though you're storing it in the GameResult file, it will be outside of the GameResult class's curly braces).

Paul Frivold
Paul Frivold
1,073 Points
Paul Frivold
Paul Frivold
1,073 Points

Thank you so much! That makes sense.