Overview of data access in C#

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Data Access, Properties, and Methods - slide 3 : 29

Overview of data access in C#

In C# the data of a class can be accessed in several different ways

Data access
- Directly via public instance variables
  - Never do that!
- Indirectly via properties
  - Clients cannot tell the difference between access via properties and direct access of instance variables
- Indirectly via methods
  - Should be reserved for "calculations on objects"
- Indirectly via indexers
  - Provides access by means of the notation known from traditional array indexing
- Indirectly via overloaded operators
  - Provides access by means of the language-defined operator symbols