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Mark J. Price
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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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Controlling access with properties and indexers

Earlier, you created a method named GetOrigin that returned a string containing the name and origin of the person. Languages such as Java do this a lot. C# has a better way, and it is called properties.

A property is simply a method (or a pair of methods) that acts and looks like a field when you want to get or set a value, but it acts like a method, thereby simplifying the syntax and enabling functionality, like validation and calculation, when you set and get a value.

A fundamental difference between a field and a property is that a field provides a memory address to data. You could pass that memory address to an external component, like a Windows API C-style function call, and it could then modify the data. A property does not provide a memory address to its data, which provides more control. All you can do is ask the property to get or set the data. The property then executes statements and can decide how to respond...

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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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