Question

I have c# class i have different properties.

public class Employee
{
    public int ID;
    public string Name;
    public int Age;
}

WebServices pp=new WebServices();

Employee emp= pp.GetEmpInfo(); 
//pp is an instance of webservices which is web referenced in the app.

emp.ID=100;
emp.Age=25;

I don’t assign/get return value for name from GetEmpInfo(), will that throw any exception?

If you have a class with 10 properties and don’t assign few, will it break the application?

Please share your thoughts. There is some code in production, i am not sure of the result, so am checking.

Answer 1

It will not break the application, the attributes will have their default value – objects and strings will be set to null, booleans to false, integers/floats/doubles to 0, chars to '\0' etc.
You only might encounter null reference exceptions if you access object attributes that have not been set without checking them for null.