what is a member vs. a property

Question

A friend who is new to OO programming asked me the difference between a Member and Property, and I was ashamed to admit that I couldn\'t give him a good answer. Since proper

Answer 1

Properties is one kind of members.

In C#, for example, a class can have the following members:

• Constructors
• Destructors
• Constants
• Fields
• Methods
• Properties
• Indexers
• Operators
• Events
• Delegates
• Classes
• Interfaces
• Structs

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