Public Get/Private Set

[balabaster]

When did this get added to .NET?

Class Contact 

    Private _Name As String 
    Private _Address As String 

    'Public Get/Private Set
    Public Property Name() As String 
        Get 
            Return _Name 
        End Get 
        Private Set(ByVal value As String) 
            _Name = value 
        End Set 
    End Property

    'Public Get/Private Set
    Public Property Address() As String 
        Get 
            Return _Address 
        End Get 
        Private Set(ByVal value As String) 
            _Address = value 
        End Set 
    End Property 

End Class

A property that's writeable from inside but readonly from outside! How did this manage to get past me before now?

[Curtis Rutland]

I didn't know you could use modifiers on the get/set clauses of the properties...th at's nice.

Good find.

[balabaster]

I didn't know you could use modifiers on the get/set clauses of the properties...th at's nice.

Good find.

I didn't either - I found some obscure code pattern on the net that I for sure thought was wrong and translated it to VB using DeveloperFusion 's tool thinking it would crash because if that existed in VB I'd have found it before now - but it didn't.

So I pasted into a console app thinking that DeveloperFusion had just translated it wrong, and it works...

[PRR]

When did this get added to .NET?

Class Contact 

    Private _Name As String 
    Private _Address As String 

    'Public Get/Private Set
    Public Property Name() As String 
        Get 
            Return _Name 
        End Get 
        Private Set(ByVal value As String) 
            _Name = value 
        End Set 
    End Property

    'Public Get/Private Set
    Public Property Address() As String 
        Get 
            Return _Address 
        End Get 
        Private Set(ByVal value As String) 
            _Address = value 
        End Set 
    End Property 

End Class

A property that's writeable from inside but readonly from outside! How did this manage to get past me before now?

amazing ... tip of week...