Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

3.2. Building a Basic Class

In the next example, you'll see how to construct a .NET class piece by piece. This class will represent a product from the catalog of an e-commerce company. The Product class will store product data, and it will include the built-in functionality needed to generate a block of HTML that displays the product on a web page. When this class is complete, you'll be able to put it to work with a sample ASP.NET test page.

Once you've defined a class, the first step is to add some basic data. The next example defines three member variables that store information about the product, namely, its name, price, and a URL that points to an image file:

public class Product { private string name; private decimal price; private string ...