Setting List items in C# without automatic setter/getter

Question

I\'m trying to make a manual setter/getter method in C#, but i\'m getting the following error from the \"set\"-line: Error: The best overloaded method match for \'System.Col

Answer 1

With a getter/setter the input and output types must be the same. (hence the declaration being public List Packages { ... - it is expecting an input of List and an output of List.

What you are doing here is trying to get type List and set type Package. This is not allowed.

What I think you want to do is the following:

private List packages = new List();    

public List Packages
{
    // no setter
    get { return packages; }
}

Then call myObject.Packages to get all the packages and myObject.Packages.Add(package) to add.