Is it possible to create an attribute that generates a get/set property?

[Thorsten Ottosen]

Dear all,

I'm new to C#, so forgive my stupid question.

In my question to avoid boilerplate code, I was wondering if
I could use attributes to generate some code for me.

For example

public class Foo
{
[GeneratePropert y("Field")]
int m_field;
}

should be equivalent to

public class Foo
{
int m_field;

public int Field
{
get { return m_field; }
set { m_field = value; }
}
}

Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

Thorsten

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Thorsten,

No, it is not. You have to generate the code for the property yourself.
You can do this with code snippets in VS.NET 2005, I believe.

Hope this helps.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"Thorsten Ottosen" <th***@wmdata.c om> wrote in message
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Dear all,

I'm new to C#, so forgive my stupid question.

In my question to avoid boilerplate code, I was wondering if
I could use attributes to generate some code for me.

For example

public class Foo
{
[GeneratePropert y("Field")]
int m_field;
}

should be equivalent to

public class Foo
{
int m_field;

public int Field
{
get { return m_field; }
set { m_field = value; }
}
}

Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

Thorsten

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

hi,

No you cannot
In VS2005 you will be able to refactor it and create a property around it

All you have to do is wait :)

In the meantime I believe there r 3rd party tools for this.
cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

"Thorsten Ottosen" <th***@wmdata.c om> wrote in message
news:42******** *************** @news.sunsite.d k...

Dear all,

I'm new to C#, so forgive my stupid question.

In my question to avoid boilerplate code, I was wondering if
I could use attributes to generate some code for me.

For example

public class Foo
{
[GeneratePropert y("Field")]
int m_field;
}

should be equivalent to

public class Foo
{
int m_field;

public int Field
{
get { return m_field; }
set { m_field = value; }
}
}

Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

Thorsten

[Thorsten Ottosen]

"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" <ignacio.mach in AT dot.state.fl.us > wrote
in message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP10.phx.gbl. ..

hi,

No you cannot
In VS2005 you will be able to refactor it and create a property around it
what do you mean?

That I simply manually implement the property?
All you have to do is wait :)

on what?

Thanks

Thorsten

[Adam Clauss]

"Thorsten Ottosen" <th***@wmdata.c om> wrote in message
news:42******** *************** @news.sunsite.d k...

"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" <ignacio.mach in AT dot.state.fl.us >
wrote in message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP10.phx.gbl. ..

hi,

No you cannot
In VS2005 you will be able to refactor it and create a property around it

what do you mean?

That I simply manually implement the property?

For now, yes. Or find a third party tool that will do it for you (I believe
ReSharper has support for this among other things).

All you have to do is wait :)

on what?

On VS2005...

--
Adam Clauss

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

"Thorsten Ottosen" <th***@wmdata.c om> wrote in message
news:42******** *************** @news.sunsite.d k...

"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" <ignacio.mach in AT dot.state.fl.us >
wrote in message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP10.phx.gbl. ..

hi,

No you cannot
In VS2005 you will be able to refactor it and create a property around it

what do you mean?
That I simply manually implement the property?

No, I mean that with a right click over the member variable you will have a
"Refactor" option that you can select and the IDE will create the property
for you, if even this is too much for you ( it's for me ) there is a
keyboard shortcut for it.

All you have to do is wait :)

on what?

For VS 2005
cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Please feel free to use my macro designed for the purpose.

You should declare property backer fields using an underbar character and a
lower-case first letter like so:

Private int _myInt;

Running the macro on this line creates a property such as:

public int MyInt
{
get{return _myInt;}
set{_myInt=valu e;}
}

For my own preference I have tied this macro to the Ctrl+Shft+V (for
variable) key combination.

You can define all your fields and then just hit your chosen hot-key
combination repeatedly to turn all fields into public properties with the
correct get-set code.

Full macro code is after my signature.

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Visual C#, System.Drawing

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"Thorsten Ottosen" <th***@wmdata.c om> wrote in message
news:42******** *************** @news.sunsite.d k...

Dear all,

I'm new to C#, so forgive my stupid question.

In my question to avoid boilerplate code, I was wondering if
I could use attributes to generate some code for me.

For example

public class Foo
{
[GeneratePropert y("Field")]
int m_field;
}

should be equivalent to

public class Foo
{
int m_field;

public int Field
{
get { return m_field; }
set { m_field = value; }
}
}

Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

Thorsten

[Thorsten Ottosen]

"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkille r_bobpowell.net > wrote in message
news:OB******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP15.phx.gbl. ..

Please feel free to use my macro designed for the purpose.

Thanks :-)

best regards

Thorsten

[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

No, it is not possible. You must use a macro or add-in. My add-in (below)
provides features to create properties from scratch or to convert a field to
a property.

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio .NET, VB6, VB5 and VBA
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"Thorsten Ottosen" <th***@wmdata.c om> escribió en el mensaje
news:42******** *************** @news.sunsite.d k...

Dear all,

I'm new to C#, so forgive my stupid question.

In my question to avoid boilerplate code, I was wondering if
I could use attributes to generate some code for me.

For example

public class Foo
{
[GeneratePropert y("Field")]
int m_field;
}

should be equivalent to

public class Foo
{
int m_field;

public int Field
{
get { return m_field; }
set { m_field = value; }
}
}

Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

Thorsten