static void SimpleProgram() // A block is a sequence of zero or more statements enclosed by a matching set of curly braces; it acts as a single syntactic statement. { //A statement is a source code instruction describing a type or telling the program to perform an action. int var1 = 5; //Write is a menber of the Console class. It sends a text string to the program's console window. System.Console.Write("This is trival text."); //WriteLine is another member of Console, which performs the same functions as Write but appends a newline character to the end of each output string. System.Console.WriteLine("The value of var1 is {0}", var1); //The first parameter must always be a string and is called the format string. //The format string can contain substitution markers //A substitution marker marks the position in the format string where a value should be substituted in the output string. //It consists of an integer enclosed in a set of matching curly braces. The integer is the numeric position of the substitution value to be used. //The parameters following the format string are called substitution values. These substitution values are numbered, starting at 0. System.Console.WriteLine("Two sample integers are {1}, {0} and {1}.", 3, 6); //A marker must not attempt to referrence a value at a position beyond the length of the list of substition values. //If it does, it will not produce a compile error but a runtime error (called an exception). }