Assign value directly to class variable

Question

I don't know if this is that easy nobody is looking for that, but I didn't found anything...

I want to do the following:

public class foo
{
    string X 
    {
        get; 
        set
        { 
            //set and do some other stuff 
        }
    }

    //some other functions
}

Main:

private foo = new foo();

foo = "bla";

How can I assign this bla DIRECTLY to the class-variable foo without using foo.X = "bla"?

How are the datatypes doing this, e.g string? How are they made? Because I can do string y; y = "abc" ?

Answer 1

Are you looking for implicit operator?

public class foo {
  string X {
    get;
    set;
  }

  public static implicit operator foo(string value) {
    return new foo() {
      X = value
    };
  }
}

Please, notice, that there's no constructor call here which will be called (and thus create a new foo instance) implicitly:

private foo myFoo = "bla";