Question

I took this code from elsewhere in order to show and hide forms effectively. Whilst I understand most of it, I don’t understand what get does in this context and in general. can this be explained?
WinForms

public class FormProvider
{
    public static Form1 frm1
    {
        get
        {
            if (_frm1 == null)
            {
                _frm1 = new Form1();
            }
            return _frm1;
        }
    }

Answer 1

It’s nothing else other than syntax wrapper over automatically generated function

public static Form1 get_frm1()
{       
   return _frm1;       
}

So every time you reference FormProvider.frm1, it’s like you are calling FormProvider.get_frm1()

In fact if you try to code something like this:

public class A {

    public string Name {get;}

    public string get_Name() {
       return "James Bond";
    }
}

it will give compile-time error, as there is a collision of definitions.