What is a Statement in C#?

In C#, statements express the actions that a program takes.

Common actions include

• Declaring variables
• Assigning values
• Calling methods
• Looping through collections
• Branching to another block of code

The order in which statements are executed in a program is called the

• flow of control or
• flow of execution.

This may vary every time that a program is run, depending on how the program reacts to input that it receives at run time.

A statement consist of one of the following:

• Single line of code that ends in a semicolon or
• Series of single-line statements in a block

A statement block is enclosed in {} brackets and can contain nested blocks.