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

Yes, of course...

In your example you are using automatic properties, without a backing field.... You just need to create a backing field for your property, and then you can do what you want in the setter and getter.

example:

private string firstName;

public string FirstName
{
 get { return firstName; }

 set { doMethod(); firstName = value;}
}