Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008 Step by Step

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.

The first two parts of this book have introduced the core syntax of the C# language and have shown you how to use C# to build new types using structures, enumerations, and classes. You have also seen how the runtime manages the memory used by variables and objects ...