C# Unleashed

Properties

Properties are class members that provide specialized access to class fields. They provide encapsulation for a class, so users are unaware of the underlying implementation required to access a class field. Their use is also transparent to the calling program.

For C++ Programmers Properties are a new programming construct. In C++ you would use explicit get/set methods to encapsulate properties. These methods are called to access class attributes. However, in C# the property name is used as if it were a field itself.

For Java Programmers Java formalized accessors through predefined signature patterns. However, they were still methods. C# properties are not methods. They provide the means to access a field by using the property as if ...