Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Create an Automatically Implemented Property (New for VB)

Beginning with the 2008 version, C# allows for a simplified property declaration called auto-implemented properties. With this feature, you can declare a property without having to declare a local, private field to back the property. Instead, the compiler does this for you. This can be useful when you do not need logic inside the property’s assessors. This feature has been added to VB for the 2010 version.

As an example, suppose you want to define the property Name on the Employee class. You can declare this property without setting a private field variable as shown here:

C#

public string Name { get; set; }

VB

Public Property Name As String

Notice that there is no logic in the get or set ...