Inheritance - get/set in c#

[jasmine82]

Hi all
I am trying to learn c#, at the moment i am stuck on an inheritance and set get example
here is my code
Main program
[code=c#]
static void Main()
{
squar sq = new squar();
sq.squareArea() ;
Console.WriteLi ne("The area of a square is " + Area);
Console.Read();
}
[/code]
and here is my parent and child class
[code=c#]
using System;

namespace simpleInheritan ce
{
public class shapes
{
private int h;
public int height
{
get{ return h;}
set{h=10;}//<--here
}
}
public int getHeight()
{
int theHeight = height;
return theHeight;
}
}//end class shapes

public class squar : shapes
{
public void squareArea()
{
int side = getHeight();
int area = side * side;
Console.WriteLi ne("area is " + area);
}
}
}
[/code]

my question is why doesnt my set method in the shapes class (parent) get executed... only the get method is being executed...

thanks in adavance

[Laharl]

You're on the wrong forum, this should be in the .NET forum.

As an fyi, you never actually call your set method that I see, unless that's C#'s idea of a constructor.

[Plater]

As an fyi, you never actually call your set method that I see, unless that's C#'s idea of a constructor.

No, you are right, nowhere in that code is any attempt at using the set method done.

[Curtis Rutland]

I can give you a bit of advice here. First of all, getHeight() is doubly redundant. You make a copy of your variable to return, which is inefficient and unnecessary, but even the method itself is unnecessary. The public property height has a get method, so you can just reference height. You don't need a method to return the value, because you made the property public.

You don't have any constructor at all. You should make a constructor that accepts a int or double, so when you create a shape, you can pass a value to it for the height. Then, make a constructor for squar that takes the same type (int or double), and make sure that it calls the base constructor.

I understand that may be a bit much for someone just learning, but constructors are fundamental concepts that you must grasp.