Trouble using the ref keyword. Very newbie question!

Posted by Sergio Tapia on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Sergio Tapia
Published on 2010-04-25T14:28:02Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 14:33 UTC
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Here's my class:

public class UserInformation
    {
        public string Username { get; set; }
        public string ComputerName { get; set; }
        public string Workgroup { get; set; }

        public string OperatingSystem { get; set; }
        public string Processor { get; set; }
        public string RAM { get; set; }
        public string IPAddress { get; set; }

        public UserInformation GetUserInformation()
        {
            var CompleteInformation = new UserInformation();

            GetPersonalDetails(ref CompleteInformation);
            GetMachineDetails(ref CompleteInformation);

            return CompleteInformation;
        }

        private void GetPersonalDetails(ref UserInformation CompleteInformation)
        {

        }

        private void GetMachineDetails(ref UserInformation CompleteInformation)
        {

        }
    }

I'm under the impression that the ref keyword tells the computer to use the same variable and not create a new one.

Am I using it correctly? Do I have to use ref on both the calling code line and the actual method implementation?

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