Using the Properties and Property Attributes

The simple class shown in Listing 3.6.1 has properties.

Listing 3.6.1. The SimpleObject Class
 1: public class SimpleObject
 2: {
 3:     private int _int;
 4:     private string _string;
 5:     private Color _color;
 6:
 7:     public SimpleObject()
 8:     {
 9:         //
10:         // TODO: Add constructor logic here
11:         //
12:     }
13:
14:     public int TheInteger
15:     {
16:         get
17:         {
18:             return _int;
19:         }
20:         set
21:         {
22:             _int=value;
23:             }
24:     }
25:
26:     public string TheString
27:     {
28:         get
29:         {
30:             return _string;
31:         }
32:         set
33:         {
34:             _string=value;
35:         }
36:     }
37:
38:     public Color TheColor
39:     {
40:         get
41:         {
42:             return _color;
43:         }
44:         set
45:         {
46:             _color=value;
47:         }
48:     }
49: }

You can see that the class has three private data ...

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