Property backing value scope

Question

Is anything like this possible? I\'m assuming not, but it looks good to me:

class MyClass {
    public int Foo {
        get { return m_foo; }
        s         


        

Answer 1

If you would like to avoid generics, you could always hide the _backingField and the bounds checking in a private inner class. You could even hide it further by making the outer class partial. Of course, there would have to be some delegating going on between the outer and the inner class, which is a bummer. Code to explain my thoughts:

public partial class MyClass
{
    public int Property
    {
        get { return _properties.Property; }
        set { _properties.Property = value; }
    }

    public void Stuff()
    {
        // Can't get to _backingField...
    }
}

public partial class MyClass
{
    private readonly Properties _properties = new Properties();

    private class Properties
    {
        private int _backingField;

        public int Property
        {
            get { return _backingField; }
            set
            {
                // perform checks
                _backingField = value;
            }
        }
    }
}

But this is a lot of code. To justify all that boiler plate, the original problem has to be quite severe...