Is there a way to intercept setters and getters in C#?

Question

In both Ruby and PHP (and I guess other languages as well) there are some utility methods that are called whenever a property is set. ( *instance_variable_set*

Answer 1

You cant use automatic properties. You would have to dinfe the property out the old fashion way with a backing field and call the method manually.

public class Person
{
    private string _FirstName;
    public string FirstName 
    { 
        get
        {
            return _FirstName;
        }
        set
        {
            SomeMethod();
            _FirstName = value;
        }
    }
    private void SomeMethod()
    {
        //do something
    }

}