Question

C# allows the creation of a property as below:

public string SomeRandomText
{
    get; set;
}

The framework handles the creation of the backing variable for this property. How can I have such a property and still have change notification?

Is this allowed in a class that implements INotifyPropertyChanged?

public string SomeRandomTextBeingNotified
{
    get;
    set
    {
        NotifyPropertyChanged("SomeRandomTextBeingNotified");
    }
}

Answer 1

You can’t use automatic properties when trying to use this. You’ll need to creating a backing store:

private string _someRandomText;
public string SomeRandomText {
    get { return _someRandomText; }
    set 
    {
        _someRandomText = value;
        NotifyPropertyChanged("SomeRandomText");
    }
}