C# 3.0 Features: Automatic Property

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I am super excited with the Orcas March 2007 CTP release. I was doing the hands on with the C# and LINQ and as you know C# 3.0 comes with a lot of new things which increases the level of abstraction for the developer. We now write less and do more. As I often have mentioned in my previous entries and presentations with Microsoft Partner that now have think more on why not on how. I remember the day when I first learned the Property. I used to scratch my head on what to do with get or set. I probably started it now as we have snippet for property. Anyways in conventional way we declare property in a class like

 

publicclassCustomer

{

public Customer() { }

privateint _CustID;

publicint CustID

    {

get { return _CustID; }

set { _CustID = value ; }

    }

}

Now C# 3.0 suggests us not to invest so much. Rather than using property like

 

privateint _CustID;

publicint CustID

{

get { return _CustID; }

set { _CustID = value ; }

}

We can declare property like

 

publicint CustID

{

get ;

set ;

}

No more private variable or = or value etc required. This is Automatic property in C# 3.0.

 

 

Namoskar!!!