Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 15. Implementing properties to access fields

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Implementing encapsulation by using methods

• Read-only properties

• Write-only properties

• Declaring interface properties

• Property accessibility

• Generating automatic properties

• Initializing objects by using properties

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 approach ensures safe and controlled access to fields and makes it possible for you to encapsulate additional logic and rules concerning the values that are permitted. However, the syntax ...