Get accessor

Get accessor

The execution of the

get

accessor is equivalent to reading the value of the field.

The following is a

get

accessor that returns the value of a private field name:

private string name; // the name field

public string Name // the Name property

{

get

{

return name;

}

}

Set accessor

The

set

accessor is similar to a method that returns

void

. It uses an implicit parameter

called

value

, whose type is the type of the property. In the following example, a

set

accessor is added to the Name property:

public string Name

{

get

{

return name;

}

set

{

name = value;

}

}

When you assign a value to the property, the

set

accessor is invoked with an argument

that provides the new value. For example:

e1.Name = "Reshmi"; // The set accessor is invoked here

It is an error to use the implicit parameter name (

value

) for a local variable declaration in

a

set

accessor.