How can we generate getters and setters in Visual Studio?

Question

By \"generate\", I mean auto-generation of the code necessary for a particular selected (set of) variable(s).

But any more explicit explication or comment on good pr

Answer 1

I use Visual Studio 2013 Professional.

• Place your cursor at the line of an instance variable.
  
  
  
  
• Press combine keys Ctrl + R, Ctrl + E, or click the right mouse button. Choose context menu Refactor → Encapsulate Field..., and then press OK.
  
  
  
  
• In Preview Reference Changes - Encapsulate Field dialog, press button Apply.
  
  
  
  
• This is result:
  
  

You also place the cursor for choosing a property. Use menu Edit → Refactor → Encapsulate Field...

• Other information:

  Since C# 3.0 (November 19th 2007), we can use auto-implemented properties (this is merely syntactic sugar).

  And

  private int productID;
  
  public int ProductID
  {
      get { return productID; }
      set { productID = value; }
  }
  

  becomes

  public int ProductID { get; set; }
  

Answer 2

Rather than using Ctrl + K, X you can also just type prop and then hit Tab twice.

Answer 3

If you're using ReSharper, go into the ReSharper menu → Code → Generate...

(Or hit Alt + Ins inside the surrounding class), and you'll get all the options for generating getters and/or setters you can think of :-)

Answer 4

I created my own snippet that only adds {get; set;}. I made it just because I find prop → Tab to be clunky.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CodeSnippets
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
    <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
        <Header>
            <Title>get set</Title>
            <Shortcut>get</Shortcut>
        </Header>
        <Snippet>
            <Code Language="CSharp">
                <![CDATA[{get; set;}]]>
            </Code>
        </Snippet>
    </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>

With this, you type your PropType and PropName manually, then type get → Tab, and it will add the get set. It's nothing magical, but since I tend to type my access modifier first anyway, I may as well finish out the name and type.

Answer 5

You just simply press Alt + Ins in Android Studio.

After declaring variables, you will get the getters and setters in the generated code.

Answer 6

In Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 you can select all the fields you want and then press Ctrl + . to automatically generate the properties.

You have to choose if you want to use the property instead of the field or not.