<p>By "generate", I mean auto-generation of the code necessary for a particular selected (set of) variable(s).</p>

<p>But any more explicit explication or comment on good practice is welcome.</p>

[{'answer_id': 3019, 'author': 'Mario Marinato', 'author_id': 431, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/431', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I don't have Visual Studio installed on my machine anymore (and I'm using Linux), but I do remember that there was an wizard hidden somewhere inside one of the menus that gave access to a class builder.</p>\n\n<p>With this wizard, you could define all your classes' details, including methods and attributes. If I remember well, there was an option through which you could ask Visual Studio to create the setters and getters automatically for you.</p>\n\n<p>I know it's quite vague, but check it out and you might find it.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 3023, 'author': 'Jon Limjap', 'author_id': 372, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/372', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>By generate, do you mean auto-generate? If that's not what you mean:</p>\n\n<p>Visual Studio 2008 has the easiest implementation for this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>public PropertyType PropertyName { get; set; }\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>In the background this creates an implied instance variable to which your property is stored and retrieved.</p>\n\n<p>However if you want to put in more logic in your Properties, you will have to have an instance variable for it:</p>\n\n<pre><code>private PropertyType _property;\n\npublic PropertyType PropertyName\n{\n    get\n    {\n        //logic here \n        return _property;\n    }\n    set\n    {\n        //logic here\n        _property = value;\n    }\n }\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Previous versions of Visual Studio always used this longhand method as well.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 3026, 'author': 'omar', 'author_id': 453, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/453', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you are using Visual Studio 2005 and up, you can create a setter/getter real fast using the insert snippet command.</p>\n\n<p>Right click on your code, click on <em>Insert Snippet</em> (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>K</kbd>,<kbd>X</kbd>), and then choose "prop" from the list.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 3029, 'author': 'Orion Edwards', 'author_id': 234, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/234', 'pm_score': 9, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Rather than using <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>K</kbd>, <kbd>X</kbd> you can also just type <code>prop</code> and then hit <kbd>Tab</kbd> twice.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 3032, 'author': 'Dan Herbert', 'author_id': 392, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/392', 'pm_score': 6, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Visual Studio also has a feature that will generate a Property from a private variable.</p>\n\n<p>If you right-click on a variable, in the context menu that pops up, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3017/how-can-we-generate-getters-and-setters-in-visual-studio/29917170#29917170">click on the "Refactor" item, and then choose <em>Encapsulate Field...</em></a>. This will create a getter/setter property for a variable.</p>\n\n<p>I\'m not too big a fan of this technique as it is a little bit awkward to use if you have to create a lot of getters/setters, and it puts the property directly below the private field, which bugs me, because I usually have all of my private fields grouped together, and this Visual Studio feature breaks my class\' formatting.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 435737, 'author': 'Daniel', 'author_id': 47225, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47225', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>In addition to the \'prop\' snippet and auto-properties, there is a refactor option to let you select an existing field and expose it via a property (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3017/how-can-we-generate-getters-and-setters-in-visual-studio/29917170#29917170">right click on the field &rarr; <em>Refactor</em> &rarr; <em>Encapsulate Field...</em></a>).</p>\n\n<p>Also, if you don\'t like the \'prop\' implementation, you can create your own snippets. Additionally, a third-party refactoring tool like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains#ReSharper_Ultimate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ReSharper</a> will give you even more features and make it easier to create more advanced snippets. I\'d recommend ReSharper if you can afford it.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f7d3wz0k(VS.80).aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f7d3wz0k(VS.80).aspx</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhxC-K-Eehg&amp;lc=UgyiQqiNVxFQAPQr9jt4AaABAg&amp;t=2m01s" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Video demonstrating the use of snippet \'prop\'</a> (among other things), at 3 min 23 secs.</p></li>\n</ul>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1488445, 'author': 'Oliver', 'author_id': 177710, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/177710', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>If you're using ReSharper, go into the ReSharper menu &rarr; <em>Code</em> &rarr; <em>Generate...</em></p>\n\n<p>(Or hit <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>Ins</kbd> inside the surrounding class), and you'll get all the options for generating getters and/or setters you can think of :-)</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 11521113, 'author': 'Chirag Khatsuriya', 'author_id': 1302273, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1302273', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can also use "propfull" and hit <kbd>TAB</kbd> twice.</p>\n\n<p>The variable and property with get and set will be generated.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 26029899, 'author': 'avinash kadu', 'author_id': 4070190, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4070190', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Use the <code>propfull</code> keyword.</p>\n\n<p>It will generate a property and a variable.</p>\n\n<p>Type keyword <code>propfull</code> in the editor, followed by two <kbd>TAB</kbd>s. It will generate code like:</p>\n\n<pre><code>private data_type var_name;\n\npublic data_type var_name1{ get;set;}\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhxC-K-Eehg&amp;lc=UgyiQqiNVxFQAPQr9jt4AaABAg&amp;t=4m11s" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Video demonstrating the use of snippet \'propfull\'</a> (among other things), at 4 min 11 secs.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 29265520, 'author': 'bsayegh', 'author_id': 2872338, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2872338', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I created my own snippet that <em>only</em> adds <code>{get; set;}</code>. I made it just because I find <code>prop</code> &rarr; <kbd>Tab</kbd> to be clunky.</p>\n\n<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;\n&lt;CodeSnippets\n    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet"&gt;\n    &lt;CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0"&gt;\n        &lt;Header&gt;\n            &lt;Title&gt;get set&lt;/Title&gt;\n            &lt;Shortcut&gt;get&lt;/Shortcut&gt;\n        &lt;/Header&gt;\n        &lt;Snippet&gt;\n            &lt;Code Language="CSharp"&gt;\n                &lt;![CDATA[{get; set;}]]&gt;\n            &lt;/Code&gt;\n        &lt;/Snippet&gt;\n    &lt;/CodeSnippet&gt;\n&lt;/CodeSnippets&gt;\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>With this, you type your PropType and PropName manually, then type <code>get</code> &rarr; <kbd>Tab</kbd>, and it will add the get set. It\'s nothing magical, but since I tend to type my access modifier first anyway, I may as well finish out the name and type.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 29917170, 'author': 'James Grey', 'author_id': 3728901, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3728901', 'pm_score': 6, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I use Visual Studio 2013 Professional.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Place your cursor at the line of an instance variable. <br/><br/>\n<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/URO5T.png" alt="Enter image description here"> <br/><br/></li>\n<li>Press combine keys <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>R</kbd>, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>E</kbd>, or click the right mouse button. Choose context menu <em>Refactor</em> &rarr; <em>Encapsulate Field...</em>, and then press <kbd>OK</kbd>. <br/><br/>\n<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vT3Iv.png" alt="Enter image description here"><br/><br/></li>\n<li>In <em>Preview Reference Changes - Encapsulate Field</em> dialog, press button <kbd>Apply</kbd>. <br/><br/>\n<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IgVzp.png" alt="Enter image description here"> <br/><br/></li>\n<li>This is result: <br/><br/>\n<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CjkBG.png" alt="Enter image description here"></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><br/><br/>You also <strong>place the cursor for choosing a property</strong>. Use menu <em>Edit</em> &rarr; <em>Refactor</em> &rarr; <em>Encapsulate Field...</em><br/><br/></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><strong>Other information:</strong></p>\n\n<p>Since C# 3.0 (November 19th 2007), we can use <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384054.aspx" rel="noreferrer">auto-implemented properties</a> (this is merely <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar" rel="noreferrer">syntactic sugar</a>).</p>\n\n<p>And</p>\n\n<pre><code>private int productID;\n\npublic int ProductID\n{\n    get { return productID; }\n    set { productID = value; }\n}\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>becomes</p>\n\n<pre><code>public int ProductID { get; set; }\n</code></pre></li>\n</ul>\n'}, {'answer_id': 41515096, 'author': 'Tito Leiva', 'author_id': 1772757, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1772757', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>In Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 you can select all the fields you want and then press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>.</kbd> to automatically generate the properties.</p>\n\n<p>You have to choose if you want to use the property instead of the field or not.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 45674153, 'author': 'DotNetLover', 'author_id': 4894419, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4894419', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QkVpG.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QkVpG.png" alt="Enter image description here"></a></p>\n\n<p>On behalf of the Visual Studio tool, we can easily generate C# properties using an online tool called <a href="http://www.dotnetqueries.com/csharp-property-generator" rel="nofollow noreferrer">C# property generator.</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 47523896, 'author': 'A_R Rehman', 'author_id': 7890800, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7890800', 'pm_score': -1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You just simply press <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>Ins</kbd> in Android Studio. </p>\n\n<p>After declaring variables, you will get the getters and setters in the generated code.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 53811392, 'author': 'Sejpalsinh Jadeja', 'author_id': 10079107, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10079107', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>First get Extension just press (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>X</kbd>) and install getter setter .... </p>\n\n<p>After this, just select your variable and right click. Go to Command palette...</p>\n\n<p>And type getter ... It will suggest generate get and set methods. Click on this...</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 59482593, 'author': 'Adil Malik', 'author_id': 1182823, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1182823', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>In visual studio 2019, select your properties like this:</p>\n<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hy6dF.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hy6dF.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>\n<p>Then press <code>Ctrl+r</code>\nThen press <code>Ctrl+e</code></p>\n<p>A dialog will appear showing you the preview of the changes that are going to happen to your code. If everything looks good (which it mostly will), press <code>OK</code>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 72680498, 'author': 'malu', 'author_id': 19370990, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19370990', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I personaly use <kbd>CTRL</kbd>+<kbd>.</kbd> and then select-\n&quot;Encapsulated Fildes&quot;.\nThat\'s a short for this option- (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3017/how-can-we-generate-getters-and-setters-in-visual-studio/29917170#29917170">How can we generate getters and setters in Visual Studio?</a>).</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3KwsY.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">I marked the short for auto choosing <strong>refactoring</strong> (<kbd>CTRL</kbd>+<kbd>.</kbd> )</a></li>\n</ul>\n'}]
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