[Solved].Net Error: A namespace cannot directly contain members such as fields, methods or statements

Hi,

I am trying to add claims to my ApplicationUser.cs but getting some error:

Error CS0116 A namespace cannot directly contain members such as fields, methods or statements

public async Task<ClaimsIdentity> GenerateUserIdentityAsync(UserManager<ApplicationUser> manager)
{
    var userIdentity = await manager.CreateIdentityAsync(this, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);
    // Add custom user claims here
    userIdentity .AddClaims(new[] {
        new Claim("MyClaimName","MyClaimValue"),
        new Claim("YetAnotherClaim","YetAnotherValue"),
    });
    return userIdentity;
}

why is that?