Best Practice: Property Usage

[MikeG]

When creating a class library is it wrong or not a 'Best Practice' to
reference a property of an object from within a constructor or method of
that object? I recall being told not to do this but I really don't
understand why. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Here is an example of what I mean...

namespace ClassLibrary
{
public class MyClass
{
private string _myString;

public MyClass()
{
}

public MyClass(int myInt)
{
// Best Practice issue?
MyString = GetString(myInt );
}

public string MyString
{
get { return _myString; }
set { _myString = FormatString(va lue); }
}

public void SomePublicMetho d()
{
// Best Practice issue?
SomePrivateMeth od(MyString);
}

private void SomePrivateMeth od(string myString)
{
// Lets pretend that this method does something
}

private string FormatString(st ring myString)
{
// Do some formatting
return myString;
}

private string GetString(int myInt)
{
// Lets pretend this value was retrieved
// based on the myInt parameter
return "someString ";
}
}
}

[Joanna Carter [TeamB]]

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| When creating a class library is it wrong or not a 'Best Practice' to
| reference a property of an object from within a constructor or method of
| that object? I recall being told not to do this but I really don't
| understand why. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I can't see any problem with using a property setter to set a field value;
aftera ll it is only really a prettified method. :-)

Joanna

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Joanna Carter [TeamB]
Consultant Software Engineer

[MikeG]

Thanks Joanna!
I really appreciate your response.

Mike G.

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| When creating a class library is it wrong or not a 'Best Practice' to
| reference a property of an object from within a constructor or method of
| that object? I recall being told not to do this but I really don't
| understand why. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I can't see any problem with using a property setter to set a field value;
aftera ll it is only really a prettified method. :-)

Joanna

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Joanna Carter [TeamB]
Consultant Software Engineer