Microsoft® Visual C#® 2012 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.

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