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C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals - Eighth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635870
Pages 828 pages
Edition 8th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Mark J. Price Mark J. Price
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET! 2. Speaking C# 3. Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions 4. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions 5. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming 6. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes 7. Packaging and Distributing .NET Types 8. Working with Common .NET Types 9. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization 10. Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core 11. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ 12. Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core 13. Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages 14. Building and Consuming Web Services 15. Building User Interfaces Using Blazor 16. Epilogue 17. Index

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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