WPF Basics – Different Between Public Variables and Public Property

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Public variables can be accessed directly with the instance of the class. In this given example, _name and _city are the public variables.

Public properties are interface methods (like Get and Set Method in C++) for the private, protected and public variables. It can do more work rather than changing the value as it is a method. You can add notify event handler in the set methods.

A good C# class implementation will have private or protected variables with public properties to change the values.

public class StudentInformation

   {

      public string _name;

      public string _city;

 

 

      public string Name

      {

         get

         {

            return _name;

         }

         set

         {

            _name = value;

         }

      }

 

      public string City

      {

         get

         {

            return _city;

         }

         set

         {

            _city = value;

         }

      }

 

      public override string  ToString()

      {

            return Name + " " + City;

      }

   }

 

 

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