Whether a member (method, property, variable etc) is static or not has
nothing to do with whether or not it's public. It's to do with whether
it's conceptually something to do with the type as a whole, or an
individual instance of the type.

It's not a hugely easy topic to describe quickly in a newsgroup post,
but I suggest you consult a book or tutorial about it - it's a key
concept in .NET.

You don't, but you do have to create an instance of the class to see the
public method.

public class MyPublicClass
{
   public static void PublicStaticMethod() { }
   public void PublicInstanceMethod() { }
}

in another class.....

MyPublicClass. (code insight will only show PublicStaticMethod in the list)

MyPublicClass instance = new MyPublicClass();
instance. (code insight will show PublicInstanceMethod)

Pete

You seem to have confused the intent of the public versus private accessor
and the static keyword.

Static defines a method, property or class that is associated with a
particular type but which does not require access to the instance members of
the type. A static method can be called using the form
MyType.MyStaticMethod. The static method must be public in order to be used
from another class.

A non static public method requires an instance of the class:

MyType mt=new MyType();
mt.MyPublicMethod();

A static method may not access any instance data or other instance methods
of a class so this will not work:

class MyClass
{
   int t;

   public static void ChangeT()
   {
       t=10;
   }
}

I hope this clarifies somewhat but as John suggests you should probably be
looking at a textbook.

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