Calling a Static method in C#

Question

How do I call a static method? I want to call this from a class I have created, I want to get the location from IP. I've declared it but what I need to do is call the method... as static...

To be honest with you, I'm quite confused here, do I need to instantiate address, city, etc.?

I have done this so far;

LocationTools.cs

public static class LocationTools
    {
        public static void GetLocationFromIP(string address, out string city, out string region, out string country, out double? latitude, out double? longitude)
        {

Home.cs

   public string IPAPIKey
    {
       get
        {
            return WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["IPAPIKey"];
        }
    }

    ////To get the ip address of the machine and not the proxy use the following code
    static void GetLocationFromIP()
    {
        string strIPAddress = Request.UserHostAddress.ToString();
        strIPAddress = Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];

        if (strIPAddress == null || strIPAddress == "")
        {
            strIPAddress = Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"].ToString();
        }
    }
}

}

Answer 1

Static classes are generally used when you want to provide some utilities, so you do not have to create objects of those classes. You can call those methods from other classes by simply calling by class name and invoking the member function.

For example here you can call as LocationTools.GetLocationFromIP();

Hope it helps!

Answer 2

There you go

static void GetLocationFromIP()
{
    string strIPAddress = Request.UserHostAddress.ToString();
    strIPAddress = Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];

    if (strIPAddress == null || strIPAddress == "")
    {
        strIPAddress = Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"].ToString();
    }

    string city = string.Empty;
    string region = string.Empty;
    string country = string.Empty;
    double latitude = -1.00;
    double longitude = -1.00;

    LocationTools.GetLocationFromIP(strIPAddress, out city, out region, out country, out latitude, out longitude)
}