Is there a way to intercept setters and getters in C#?

Question

In both Ruby and PHP (and I guess other languages as well) there are some utility methods that are called whenever a property is set. ( *instance_variable_set*

Answer 1

Not generally; a few options though;

• inherit from ContextBoundObject - which does allow this, but at a performance cost
• write an explicit property (i.e. with a backing field), and add a utility method call manually
• look at compile-time weavers, such as PostSharp - generally by spotting an attribute or similar
• look at runtime code generators, as offered by some DI/IoC tools (and some other "decorator" based tools) - which either decorate or subclass your object to add the extra code