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6 In the Class Details pane, click on <add property> in the Properties section. Type “Name”, and press the Tab key to move to the next field. By default, Visual Studio will set the property type to int.

Type “st” to bring up Intellisense, and set the property type to String (or string).

There’s some debate over how to name private member fields that have corresponding public properties. Because C# is case-sensitive, Microsoft recommends that you use camelCase for the field and PascalCase for the property. I don’t think that quantity and Quantity are sufficiently different, so I use an older convention, prefixing the field with “m_”, which is short for “member variable”. You’ll see both conventions in MSDN and other texts.

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8. Classes in the .NET Framework > Using Class Details

Using Class Details