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.NET Windows® Forms Custom Controls
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.NET Windows® Forms Custom Controls

by Richard Weeks
January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 48m
English
Sams
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Properties

Properties are syntactic shorthand for accessor and mutator methods. In place of coding methods that retrieve or modify a particular member variable, properties provide both a get and a set submethod. Support for property style methods can be found in Visual Basic, C#, C++ (using __declspec()) and COM, to name a few. Consider the code snippet in Listing 2.2.

Listing 2.2. Get/Set Methods
 1: class Person {
 2:
 3:    private string name;
 4:
 5:    public void SetName( string Name ) {  name = Name; }
 6:    public string GetName( ) {  return name; }
 7: }
 8:
 9: Person me = new Person( );
10: me.SetName( "Richard" );
11:  Console.WriteLine( me.GetName( ) );

The code in Listing 2.2 shows two methods whose sole purpose is to expose the underlying private ...

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