property in a class

[vijaysambhe]

Hi ,

Can i populate the class variables in following fashion?

public class abc
{
string name;

public string Name
{
set
{
name = value;
}
}
public abc()
{
}
}


abc myclass1 = new abc()
abc.Name="googl e";

or

should I always populate through constructor or any other method of
class abc?

thanks

Vijay

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: property in a class

On May 28, 4:22 pm, vijaysambhe <vsamb...@gmail .comwrote:

Can i populate the class variables in following fashion?

<snip>

Absolutely - that's what most writable properties look like.

or
>
should I always populate through constructor or any other method of
class abc?

Well, if you want to create an immutable type you need to pass
everything to the constructor, but if you're okay with mutability,
there's nothing wrong with using a writable property.

Jon

[vijaysambhe]

Re: property in a class

Thanks Jon for your prompt reply.

regards
Vijay
On May 28, 4:31 pm, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk...@pobox.co mwrote:

On May 28, 4:22 pm, vijaysambhe <vsamb...@gmail .comwrote:
>

Can i populate the class variables in following fashion?

>
<snip>
>
Absolutely - that's what most writable properties look like.
>

or

>

should I always populate through constructor or any other method of
class abc?

>
Well, if you want to create an immutable type you need to pass
everything to the constructor, but if you're okay with mutability,
there's nothing wrong with using a writable property.
>
Jon

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RE: property in a class

I think you made a typo below. It should be:

abc myclass1 = new abc();
myclass1.Name=" google"; // apc.Name will not be correct...


"vijaysambh e" wrote:

Hi ,
>
Can i populate the class variables in following fashion?
>
public class abc
{
string name;
>
public string Name
{
set
{
name = value;
}
}
public abc()
{
}
}
>
>
abc myclass1 = new abc()
abc.Name="googl e";
>
or
>
should I always populate through constructor or any other method of
class abc?
>
thanks
>
Vijay
>

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

Re: property in a class

Can i populate the class variables in following fashion?

Of course, there is nothing wrong with that

>
or
>
should I always populate through constructor or any other method of
class abc?
>

It depends of the class, if the class needs to ALWAYS have a value for
a given property then you use yor constructor for that.
Also providing a constructor with parameters let you do something
like:
callAMethod( new MyClass( ......) );
without having to create an instance of MyClass (note that in 3.5 this
is no longer valid).

BTW, to a class like yours it's usually called to have a "chatty
interface"