How can we generate getters and setters in Visual Studio?

By "generate", I mean auto-generation of the code necessary for a particular selected (set of) variable(s).

But any more explicit explication or comment on good practice is welcome.

Solution 1:

Rather than using Ctrl + K, X you can also just type prop and then hit Tab twice.

Solution 2:

Visual Studio also has a feature that will generate a Property from a private variable.

If you right-click on a variable, in the context menu that pops up, click on the "Refactor" item, and then choose Encapsulate Field.... This will create a getter/setter property for a variable.

I'm not too big a fan of this technique as it is a little bit awkward to use if you have to create a lot of getters/setters, and it puts the property directly below the private field, which bugs me, because I usually have all of my private fields grouped together, and this Visual Studio feature breaks my class' formatting.

Solution 3:

I use Visual Studio 2013 Professional.

• Place your cursor at the line of an instance variable.
  
  
  
  
• Press combine keys Ctrl + R, Ctrl + E, or click the right mouse button. Choose context menu Refactor → Encapsulate Field..., and then press OK.
  
  
  
  
• In Preview Reference Changes - Encapsulate Field dialog, press button Apply.
  
  
  
  
• This is result:
  
  

You also place the cursor for choosing a property. Use menu Edit → Refactor → Encapsulate Field...

• Other information:

  Since C# 3.0 (November 19th 2007), we can use auto-implemented properties (this is merely syntactic sugar).

  And

  private int productID;
  
  public int ProductID
  {
      get { return productID; }
      set { productID = value; }
  }
  

  becomes

  public int ProductID { get; set; }