Thread: C++/CLI Property

Suppose I declare some variables in a class...

Code:

public:
	String ^name;
	int ilImageName;
	int id;
	TEX_TYPE type;
	TEX_FORMAT format;

I can set these variables in the class and whatnot. However, I can also create property types to set these class varibles, like this:

Code:

protected:
	String ^name;
	int ilImageName;
	int id;
	TEX_TYPE type;
	TEX_FORMAT format;

public:
	property String ^Name{
		String ^get() { return(name); }
		void set(String ^value) { name = value; }
	}
		property int ID{
		int get() { return(id); }
		void set(int value) { id = value; }
	}

	property TEX_TYPE Type{
		TEX_TYPE get() { return(type); }
		void set(TEX_TYPE value) { type = value; }
	}

	property TEX_FORMAT Format{
		TEX_FORMAT get() { return(format); }
		void set(TEX_FORMAT value) { format = value; }
	}

My question here is; is there any real point to using properties? And if not this, what exactly would you use properties for?

Thanks.

Sorry about putting this in the wrong forum first. I wasn't sure whether to put it here in the Windows forum, or in the C++ forum. At least i'll know for next time.

So it's basically like writing a custom handler for variable assigment?

If so, then in my particular case, shown in my first post, using properties would probably be overkill, since I have no need of additional processing.