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

Mocking frameworks can do this, as well as IoC libraries like Unity. The only other way to do such a thing would be to use IL-rewriting (as previously mentioned).