Is it OK to call virtual properties from the constructor of a NHibernate entity?

Question

take a look at this example code:

public class Comment
{
    private Comment()
    { }

    public Comment(string text, DateTime creationDate, string authorE         


        

Answer 1

IMHO the best-practice is to use properties with backing fields:

public class Comment
{
    private DateTime _creationDate;
    private string _text;
    private string _authorEmail;
    private Comment() { }
    public Comment(string text, DateTime creationDate, string authorEmail)
    {
        _text = text;
        _creationDate = creationDate;
        _authorEmail = authorEmail;
    }
    public virtual string Text
    {
        get { return _text; }
        private set { _text = value; }
    }
    public virtual string AuthorEmail
    {
        get { return _authorEmail; }
        private set { _authorEmail = value; }
    }
    public virtual DateTime CreationDate
    {
        get { return _creationDate; }
        set { _creationDate = value; }
    }
}

So you can avoid problems on child classes and you don't see any warning anymore