Getter and Setter declaration in .NET [duplicate]

Answer 1

Just to clarify, in your 3rd example _myProperty isn't actually a property. It's a field with get and set methods (and as has already been mentioned the get and set methods should specify return types).

In C# the 3rd method should be avoided in most situations. You'd only really use it if the type you wanted to return was an array, or if the get method did a lot of work rather than just returning a value. The latter isn't really necessary but for the purpose of clarity a property's get method that does a lot of work is misleading.

Answer 2

1st

string _myProperty { get; set; }

This is called an Auto Property in the .NET world. It's just syntactic sugar for #2.

2nd

string _myProperty;

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

This is the usual way to do it, which is required if you need to do any validation or extra code in your property. For example, in WPF if you need to fire a Property Changed Event. If you don't, just use the auto property, it's pretty much standard.

3

string _myProperty;

public string getMyProperty()
{
    return this._myProperty;
}

public string setMyProperty(string value)
{
    this._myProperty = value;
}

The this keyword here is redundant. Not needed at all. These are just Methods that get and set as opposed to properties, like the Java way of doing things.