C# Make everything following public / private like in C++? [closed]

Question

I recently started learning C#, but I have some background in C++. I was wondering how I would do something like

class employee
{
    public:
       ....
  ... methods ...
       ....

    private:
       ....
    ... private member variables ....
       ....
}

I tried doing this in C#, but it doesn't like the "public: ..." and "private: ..." to make everything after it either public or private.

Also, I've seen that theres this get and set thing in C#, so you don't need to do things in the way of making a private member variable, then making a function to return that variable?

While i'm at it, how does one make subclasses in C#? In C# new classes get opened in different tabs, so I'm confused as to how I would do it.

Answer 1

You can't make "blocks" public or private in C# as you would in C++, you'll have to add the visibility (and implementation) to each member. In C++, you'd normally do;

public:
  memberA();
  memberB();
private:
  memberC();

...and implement your members elsewhere, while in C#, you'd need to do;

public  memberA() { ...implement your function here... }
public  memberB() { ...implement your function here... }
private memberC() { ...implement your function here... }

As for properties, see them as auto implemented set and get methods which you can choose to implement yourself or have the compiler implement them. If you want to implement them yourself, you'll still need the field to store your data in, if you leave it up to the compiler, it will also generate the field.

Inheritance works exactly the same as it would if you put things in the same file (which is probably not even a good idea for bigger C++ projects). Just inherit as usual, as long as you're in the same namespace or have the namespace of the base class imported, you can just inherit seamlessly;

using System.Collections;  // Where IEnumerable is defined

public class MyEnumerable : IEnumerable {  // Just inherit like it 
   ...                                     // was in the same file.
}

Answer 2

1) Access modifiers in C# are different from C++ in that you need to explicitly specify one per class member.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wxh6fsc7(v=vs.71).aspx

2) The get, set you are mentioning refer to C# Properties:

class User
{
    private string userName;

    public string UserName
    {
        get { return this.userName; }
        set { this.userName = value; }
    }
}

Pls note that you can also use auto-implemented properties http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384054.aspx

3) Subclassing in C# is done like so

class Manager : Employee 
{
    //implementation goes here as usual
}