Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, Ninth Edition

CHAPTER 15

Implementing properties to access fields

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Encapsulate logical fields by using properties.

• Control read access to properties by declaring get accessors.

• Control write access to properties by declaring set accessors.

• Create interfaces that declare properties.

• Implement interfaces containing properties by using structures and classes.

• Generate properties automatically based on field definitions.

• Use properties to initialize objects.

This chapter looks at how to define and use properties to encapsulate fields and data in a class. Previous chapters emphasize that you should make the fields in a class private and provide methods to store values in them and to retrieve their values. This ...