C# 4.0 Unleashed

Chapter 11. Fields, Properties, and Indexers

In This Chapter

• Fields 545

• An Intermezzo About Enums 558

• Properties 569

• Indexers 574

Having covered the code aspect of types by looking at methods in Chapter 10, we can now move on to the data aspect of types. Fields are containers for data that’s part of a type or its instances. We now discuss how to declare and use fields.

After an intermezzo about enum types—which merely are very data-centric types with symbolic names for special values—we continue our exploration with properties and indexers. Those members are closely related to the data aspect of types in that they usually provide code-based accessors to an object’s start.

Fields

Whereas methods delineate the far-left end of the code-data ...