public get ... private set ... HOW???

[John Lately]

Is there a nice, concise, easy way to declare a property that has a public
getter and a private setter?
Or does the access level always have to be identical?
Thanks in advance.

- John

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET MVP]]

John,

There is no way to do this (in C#). You are right, the access level
always has to be identical.

The recommended way to get around this is to create methods that get/set
the property with different access levels.

Hope this helps.

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET MVP]
- nicholas...@exisconsulting.com

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[-glenn-]

John, this works in C#:

class Foo()
{
private int _number;
public int Number
{
get { return _number; }
}
private void SetNumber(int number)
{
// Perhaps do some validations on number.
_number = number;
}
}

SetNumber isn't a property but allows code in the class to set the Number
property's value.

You could always have the code directly set _number as well, but I like to
create a private method for this even if it is as simple as the one above
(in which case, the C# compiler will inline the code).

-glenn-

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