Missing partial modifier on declaration ..another partial declaration of this type exists". I'm a beginner and just following the book

user1742237 picture user1742237 · Oct 12, 2012 · Viewed 68.1k times · Source

I'm a beginner and I'm doing an exercise following a book. Below is my code and i got this

"Missing partial modifier on declaration of type 'Windowsform.Form1'; another partial declaration of this type exists".

What should i do? My code is as follows:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Windowsform
{
    public class Form1 : Form
    {
       private TextBox txtEnter;
       private Label lblDisplay;
       private Button btnOk;

       public Form1()

       {
           this.txtEnter = new TextBox();
           this.lblDisplay = new Label();
           this.btnOk = new Button();
           this.Text = "My Hellowin app!";


           //txtEnter
           this.txtEnter.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(16, 32);
           this.txtEnter.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(264, 20);

           //lblDisplay
           this.lblDisplay.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(16, 72);
           this.lblDisplay.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(264, 128);

           //btnOK
           this.btnOk.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(88, 224);
           this.btnOk.Text = "OK";
           this.btnOk.Click +=
               new System.EventHandler(this.btnOK_Click); 

           //MyForm
           this.Controls.AddRange(new Control[] {
                            this.txtEnter, this.lblDisplay, this.btnOk});

       }

       static void Main()
       {
           Application.Run(new Form1());
       }

       private void btnOK_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
       {
           lblDisplay.Text = txtEnter.Text + "\n" + lblDisplay.Text;
       }
    }
}

Answer

Adriano Repetti picture Adriano Repetti · Oct 12, 2012

In another place you declared a class with the same name (Form1) and there it's declared with the partial modifier.

If you're splitting your class into two different files (for example this file for UI layout and another file for logic) then simply add the partial modifier to the declaration:

public partial class Form1
{
}