C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition

Controlling access with properties and indexers

Earlier, you created a method named GetOrigin that returned a string containing the name and origin of the person. Languages such as Java do this a lot. C# has a better way: properties.

A property is simply a method (or pair of methods) that act look and like a field when you want to get or set a value, thereby simplifying the syntax.

Defining read-only properties

In the Person2.cs file, inside the Person class, add the following code to define three properties:

• The first property will perform the same role as the GetOrigin method using the property syntax that works with all versions of C# (although, it uses the C# 6 and later string interpolation syntax).
• The second property will return a greeting message ...