#275 – Passing a struct to a Method

You can pass an instance of a struct type to a method.  By default, the struct is passed by value, which means that a copy of the struct’s data is passed into the method.  This means that the method cannot change the contents of the original struct.

For example, assume you’ve defined the following struct:

    public struct MovieInfo
    {
        public string Title;
        public int Year;
        public string Director;
    }

A method that accepts an instance of this struct as a parameter might look like:

        public static void DisplayMovieInfo(MovieInfo minfo)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("{0} ({1}), dir by {2}", minfo.Title, minfo.Year, minfo.Director);
        }

And calling the method would look like this:

MovieInfo minf = new MovieInfo();
minf.Title = "Citizen Kane";
minf.Year = 1941;
minf.Director = "Orson Welles";

Movie.DisplayMovieInfo(minf);   // Passed by value -- copy of minf passed to method