>>>>It actually also needed closeSalespoint and closeOperator. I sent both as out parameters but I was thinking I may create the above as a class instead with these properties. Do you think it will be a better solution or 4 out parameters is not bad?
>>>
>>>
>>>Dunno - there are several ways
>>>
>>>Viv's personal limit is about 5
>>>Another option mentioned is to have the method return a Tuple - only inconvenience of a tuple is that the properties do not have meaningful names
>>>
>>>Another option suggested is to create a class. I would opt for a private nested class in that case
>>
>>Can you show how the private nested class idea looks like, please?
>>
>It;s just a class declaration within a class.
>

>	class TheClass
>	{
>		public void Work()
>		{
>
>			PrivateClass hello = new PrivateClass();
>
>			hello.DoWork(); // with parameters needed
>			Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", hello.StartTime, hello.EndTime);
>			Console.ReadLine();
>
>		}
>		private class PrivateClass
>		{
>			public DateTime StartTime { get; private set; }
>			public DateTime EndTime { get; private set; }
>
>			public void DoWork()
>			{
>				StartTime = DateTime.Now;
>				EndTime = DateTime.Now;
>			}
>
>		}
>
>	}
>	
>

I see, thanks a lot - this may be very useful for me.