Comment Feed for Auto-Implemented Properties in Visual Basic 2010 (kmcgrath on Channel 9)

Re: Auto-Implemented Properties in Visual Basic 2010

tomthebuilder — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:34:45 GMT

Auto implementation is cool.

Re: Auto-Implemented Properties in Visual Basic 2010

andrgin2 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:09:36 GMT

I think this is a great feature in Visual Basic because you will really save lots of code and it will be very easy to replace an auto implemented property with a normal property afterwards (adding additional checks and cleanup work for setters, or implementing extra logic for getters if you change the field).

There is only one problem:

Very often it is better to access fields directly because you want to bypass any validation checks that my be implemented in the property someday. An example for this is the constructor where you do not have valid data yet or some other situations.

It is also good for readabilty of Code if you have your global Fields of a Class starting with a "_", while local variables in a function do not have it.

I have seen you can access the private fields directly very nicely, but there is no intellisense support for this. If you type Me._Last in the construtor there is no entry for Me._Lastname.

Re: Re: Auto-Implemented Properties in Visual Basic 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:17:26 GMT

Are you able to view other Silverlight videos on Channel 9? Alternatively, you can view it in Windows Media Player by clicking Formats and then clicking WMV (high)

Re: Auto-Implemented Properties in Visual Basic 2010

Ed Fitzgerald — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:12:09 GMT

The demo keeps asking to install Silverlight, even I have it installed. I clicked to install it again, but I still keep getting the prompt to install it. Running Vista Ultimate - latest updates.