Re: Business objects with no properties and data binding

My original sample was simplified. My real object accessors are more involved (change object state). Plus, I do not like properties since they look like fields but behave like methods (Jeffrey Richter explained it great in his book "CLR via C#").


-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul van Brenk
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 03:21
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WEB] Business objects with no properties and data binding

Why are the objects designed this way... just asking, maybe there is
something I'm missing.

I would do this:

public class State
{
  private String _abbr;
  private String _name;

  public String Abbr
  {
        get{    return this._abbr; }
  }

  public String Name
  {
 get{    return this._name; }
  }
}

-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Ivanoff
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 22:20
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DOTNET-WEB] Business objects with no properties and data
binding

Is it possible to data bind a web control (DropDownList) to a list of
business objects which do not have properties but accessor methods
instead:

public class State
{
  private String _abbr;
  private String _name;

  public String GetAbbr()
  {
    return this._abbr;
  }

  public String GetName()
  {
    return this._name;
  }
}

Thank you,
Alex

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