How to avoid property recursion

Question

This hit me recently on a project I was working on. Most people are familiar with property recursion:

public int Test 
{
   get { return this.test; }
   set          


        

Answer 1

Use code snippets.

For every property backed by a private field, use a custom code snippet you have created, instead of writing it up from scratch or letting IntelliSense do the job (poorly).

After all, this problem is about conventions and discipline, rather than language design. The case sensitive nature of C# and the subperfect code completion in Visual Studio are the reason we make these mistakes, not our lack of knowledge and design.

You best bet here is to eliminate the chance of accidents and having a predefined way of writing these repetitive things correctly is the best way to go. It also is much more automated compared to remembering conventions and enforcing them by hand.

There is a default code snippet in Visual Studio for this. Type propfull and hit Tab, then specify the instance variable name and the property name and you're good to go.