How can we generate getters and setters in Visual Studio

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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

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On behalf of the Visual Studio tool  we can easily generate C  properties using an online tool called C  property generator

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You can also use  propfull  and hit TAB twice   The variable and property with get and set will be generated

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By generate  do you mean auto-generate  If that s not what you mean   Visual Studio 2008 has the easiest implementation for this   public PropertyType PropertyName   get  set      In the background this creates an implied instance variable to which your property is stored and retrieved   However if you want to put in more logic in your Properties  you will have to have an instance variable for it   private PropertyType  property   public PropertyType PropertyName       get                 logic here          return  property            set                 logic here          property   value             Previous versions of Visual Studio always used this longhand method as well

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If you are using Visual Studio 2005 and up  you can create a setter getter real fast using the insert snippet command   Right click on your code  click on Insert Snippet  Ctrl K X   and then choose  prop  from the list

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I created my own snippet that only adds  get  set    I made it just because I find prop  rarr  Tab to be clunky    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt CodeSnippets     xmlns  http   schemas microsoft com VisualStudio 2005 CodeSnippet  gt       lt CodeSnippet Format  1 0 0  gt           lt Header gt               lt Title gt get set lt  Title gt               lt Shortcut gt get lt  Shortcut gt           lt  Header gt           lt Snippet gt               lt Code Language  CSharp  gt                   lt   CDATA  get  set     gt               lt  Code gt           lt  Snippet gt       lt  CodeSnippet gt   lt  CodeSnippets gt    With this  you type your PropType and PropName manually  then type get  rarr  Tab  and it will add the get set  It s nothing magical  but since I tend to type my access modifier first anyway  I may as well finish out the name and type

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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  rarr  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  rarr  Refactor  rarr  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

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

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In addition to the  prop  snippet and auto-properties  there is a refactor option to let you select an existing field and expose it via a property  right click on the field  rarr  Refactor  rarr  Encapsulate Field       Also  if you don t like the  prop  implementation  you can create your own snippets  Additionally  a third-party refactoring tool like ReSharper will give you even more features and make it easier to create more advanced snippets  I d recommend ReSharper if you can afford it    http   msdn microsoft com en-us library f7d3wz0k VS 80  aspx Video demonstrating the use of snippet  prop   among other things   at 3 min 23 secs

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If you re using ReSharper  go into the ReSharper menu  rarr  Code  rarr  Generate      Or hit Alt   Ins inside the surrounding class   and you ll get all the options for generating getters and or setters you can think of  -

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Use the propfull keyword   It will generate a property and a variable   Type keyword propfull in the editor  followed by two TABs  It will generate code like   private data type var name   public data type var name1  get set     Video demonstrating the use of snippet  propfull   among other things   at 4 min 11 secs

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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

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You just simply press Alt   Ins in Android Studio    After declaring variables  you will get the getters and setters in the generated code

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In Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 you can select all the fields you want and then press Ctrl     to automatically generate the properties   You have to choose if you want to use the property instead of the field or not

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First get Extension just press  Ctrl   Shift   X  and install getter setter        After this  just select your variable and right click  Go to Command palette     And type getter     It will suggest generate get and set methods  Click on this

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In visual studio 2019  select your properties like this     Then press Ctrl r Then press Ctrl e  A dialog will appear showing you the preview of the changes that are going to be done to your code  If everything looks good  which it mostly will   press OK

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I don t have Visual Studio installed on my machine anymore  and I m using Linux   but I do remember that there was an wizard hidden somewhere inside one of the menus that gave access to a class builder   With this wizard  you could define all your classes  details  including methods and attributes  If I remember well  there was an option through which you could ask Visual Studio to create the setters and getters automatically for you   I know it s quite vague  but check it out and you might find it

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