Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, and new object expressions can be used as a statement and ; Expected

Question

public string MessageItem (string ItemName)
{
    get { return dsMessageContents.Tables["input"].Rows[0].ToString();}
}

I am getting 2 errors:

1. Only assignment, call, increment, decrements, and new object expressions can be used as a statement, and
2. expected ;

Answer 1

You're combining a method and a property into something that... won't work. :)

Use a method:

public string MessageItem(string ItemName)
{
    return dsMessageContents.Tables["input"].Rows[0].ToString();
}

Or a property:

public string MessageItem
{
    get { return dsMessageContents.Tables["input"].Rows[0].ToString(); }
}

Read up on the differences here.

Answer 2

This also happens if you use double == instead of single =.

string test;
test == "hello";

to

string test;
test = "hello";