Best Way

[sreejith ss nair]

Hi, I would like to describe two way of declaring properties (1) public string Get_Set { get { return get_set; } set { get_set=value; } } (2) public string Get_Set { get { return get_set; } set { if(get_set!=value) get_set=value; } } I would like to clear few things in property declaration. a) From the above two property declaration , which one is best while considering efficient resource utilization. b) If the above given examples are not good enough , then which one is best way of declaring a property. Comment with detailed description will be highly appreciable. Sreejith Nair [ My Articles ]

[Luis Alonso Ramos]

Hello, For simplicity, if it's only setting a variable and not doing something else, I'd use the first case:

public string MyProperty
{
    get { return myProperty;  }
    set { myProperty = value; }
}

If setting the property implies other operations, then, depending on them, I would check the previous value. For example, if when a property is set to false I need to remove an event handler, I would check before that the property was not already false, so I don't remove the handler twice. But for simple properties that only set variables, no need to check. -- LuisR

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