Question

Its said that property should not be “Set” only (Code analysis rule CA1044 )and it should be “Get” as well. What should i do if I need to set value to a variable from some other class?

The will keep changing so I cannot pass it through constructor.

Shall I create a function for this as shown below?

class A
{

    public void SetValue()
    {
        b = new B();
        b.SetTest(10);
    }
}

class B
{
   int test;

   public void SetTest(int value)
   {
       test = value;
   }
}

What are the other alternatives?

Answer 1

I’d agree with that it’s a bit confusing with write only properties (from a client of the class points of view), so I try to avoid them and instead create a set method of some kind.

The way recommended by Microsoft also seems to be to rewrite it to a method (or make it read and write if suitable): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182165.aspx