Static properties syntax

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I'm going through The C# Player’s Guide book and doing tasks. There is this one that asks to create a class for RGB color and static properties for common colors (white, black, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange). Here is the proposed solution.

For example, orange:

public static Color Orange { get; } = new Color(255,  165,    0);

I'm seeing this syntax for the first time, i.e. class name before property name (Color Orange), and constructor call after curly brackets. Where can I read more about this? I don't even know what to Google.

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The curly braces part are called "auto properties". The're just syntax sugars for getters and setters. You can read more about it on DotNet Documentation.

The constructor part is just a initialization to the property. It's the same as if you initialized it from the constructor. But, since it's a static property without a public setter, that's the only way to initialize it.

That said, this small code is almost the same that if I write the below:

private static Color _orange = new Color(255, 165, 0);

public static GetOrange() {
  return _orange;
}
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