What does 'static' mean? And, what does it do?

Question

Can you please tell me what does static mean and what it does? I'm still learning and I didn't undertand that.
Thanks :)

Answer 1

Normally, if you have

class Person
{
int age;
string name;
public void SayHi()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hi");
}
}

You can then declare an object and use the class methods against that object:

Person customer = new Person;
customer.SayHi();

//outputs "Hi"

But if you have a static class, you access the methods and members of the class itself, and you cannot create (or "instantiate") objects using that class:

static class Person
{
int age;
string name;
public void SayHi()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hi");
}
}

Person.SayHi()
// outputs "Hi"
Person customer = new Person;
// generates an error!

Answer 2

Static is a variable and a function that has a scope and a lifetime associated with the container program.

Answer 3

Static makes the members of the clases belog to inself, insteand of beloning to individual object. For example if you define a class Animal with the variable count, there alwas be only one no matter how many animals objets you instantiens, otherwise you goin to create a variable for each objet you crate with this class.

Answer 4

if you are set the value same for all you declare that variable as static

Answer 5

static is a keyword if the value is same for all
then declare a variable as static
if you create the method as static then we cannot create object you can directly access by using class name