Next, we will define some fields in the class to store information about a person.
Inside the Person class, write the following code. At this point, we have decided that a person is composed of a name and a date of birth. We have encapsulated these two values inside the person. We have also made the fields public so that they are visible outside the class itself:
public class Person
{
// fields
public string Name;
public DateTime DateOfBirth;
}Tip
You can use any type for a field, including arrays and collections; for example, if you need to store multiple values.
You might want to click, hold, and drag the tab for one of your open files to arrange them so that you can see both files at once, like this:
Notice, that like we did with the class, we applied the public keyword to these fields. If we hadn't, then they would be private to the class, which means they are accessible only inside the class.
There are four access modifier keywords that...