How to implement a property in an interface

Question

In the interface, you specify the property:

public interface IResourcePolicy
{
   string Version { get; set; }
}

In the implementing class, you need to implement it:

public class ResourcePolicy : IResourcePolicy
{
   public string Version { get; set; }
}

This looks similar, but it is something completely different. In the interface, there is no code. You just specify that there is a property with a getter and a setter, whatever they will do.

In the class, you actually implement them. The shortest way to do this is using this { get; set; } syntax. The compiler will create a field and generate the getter and setter implementation for it.

You mean like this?

class MyResourcePolicy : IResourcePolicy {
    private string version;

    public string Version {
        get {
            return this.version;
        }
        set {
            this.version = value;
        }
    }
}

Interfaces can not contain any implementation (including default values). You need to switch to abstract class.

The simple example of using a property in an interface:

using System;
interface IName
{
    string Name { get; set; }
}

class Employee : IName
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

class Company : IName
{
    private string _company { get; set; }
    public string Name
    {
        get
        {
            return _company;
        }
        set
        {
            _company = value;
        }   
    }
}

class Client
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        IName e = new Employee();
        e.Name = "Tim Bridges";

        IName c = new Company();
        c.Name = "Inforsoft";

        Console.WriteLine("{0} from {1}.", e.Name, c.Name);
        Console.ReadKey();
    }
}
/*output:
 Tim Bridges from Inforsoft.
 */