The typical pattern for implementing a property in a C# class is shown below–you define a private backing variable in which to store the property value, as well as get and set accessors that read/write the property value.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | public class Dog{ // An typical instance property private string name; public string Name { get { return name; } set { name = value; } }} |
We can use the IL DASM tool to take a look at how this property is actually implemented. Start up the IL Disassembler tool and then do a File | Open and load the .exe containing the property shown above. You’ll see the following:
We see our private backing variable–name–as well as two methods that represent the get/set accessors–get_Nameand set_Name. These are the methods that the compiler generates, which implement the accessors.