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C# 3.0 gets Automatic Properties, Obj-C has it, and soon VB.Net

by Fred Mastro 6. May 2009 13:13

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I know it’s been out for a little while now and most everyone that codes in C# knows but C# 3.0 has a new feature called Automatic Properties.  Objective-C for the iPhone has this ability as well, so I was kind of getting pampered in the XCode development environment using Obj-C.  I do a lot of VB.Net and sad to say that it doesn’t exist yet for VB.Net.  However it will with VB.Net v10 as mentioned a the Professional Developer Conference.

So in C# the old way…

private string _userName;
public string UserName
{
    get { return _userName; }
    set { _userName = value; }
}

becomes…. in C# v3.0

public string UserName {get; set;}

Your private properties are created for you by the compiler. Yes, yes you already know all this. Great. Why am I posting? Just that I felt VB.Net was getting no love and have been using a similar method in Objective-C.

In Objective-C you synthesize your properties, which basically means the same thing. In your header files you define the property with the property tag

@property int maximumNumberOfSides;

then in your implementation file you create a single line

@synthesize maximumNumberOfSides;
 
So in the upcoming VB.Net (Visual Basic.Net) v10..
9 lines of code…
Private _UserName As String
Private Property UserName() As String
    Get
        Return _UserName
    End Get
    Set(ByVal value As String)
        _UserName = value
    End Set
End Property

becomes 1!
 
Public Property UserName As String

I’m so happy, I could cry.

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5/7/2009 9:53:10 PM #

PK

I've stope coding, I'll wait for v10(VS2010).
<- Crying with u Smile

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A Certified MCSE (NT4 & 2k), MCDBA (2k), A+, CCA, with over 10 years of experience with Windows Networking and Development. Developing mainly in ASP.NET, VB.NET and T-SQL. Also develops in Objective-C (iPhone), XAML (SilverLight & WPF), C#, "Classic" ASP 3.0, ADSI,  VBscript, WScript.

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