VB.net code help

[Dillinger4]

What's up all. .net is here so i guess i will attempt to make the transition I haven't programmed in Visual Basic in awhile so im looking for code that is equivalent to Java. For instance i want to implement getters/setters in Visual Basic.

In Java i would just do somthing like.......

public class Guage{

  static private double temp;
  static private double dewpoint;

  public void setTemp(double temp){
    this.temp = temp; 
  }
  public double getTemp(){
    return temp; 
  } 
  public void setDewpoint(double dewpoint){
    this.dewpoint = dewpoint; 
  } 
  public double getDewpoint(){
    return dewpoint; 
  }
 
  public static void main(String[] args){
     Guage g = new Guage();
     System.out.println(" Temp is " + g.getTemp()  + " Dewpoint is " + g.getDewpoint());
     g.setTemp(56.7); 
     g.setDewpoint(76.6);
     System.out.println(" Temp is " + g.getTemp()  + " Dewpoint is " + g.getDewpoint());            
  }
}

Now in Visual Basic .net i see that bolth are lumped in one property like the following.

  Dim strName as String

  Property Name() as String
   Get
    Name = strName 
   End Get

   Set(byVal sName as String)
    strName = Value
   End Set
 End Property

Is this the proper way to use code getters/setters in Visual Basic?
And i thought that Visual Basic was true OOP? So i there a way to refrence the object in which the current method is being called? It seems stupid to define this method with a return type of String when say if the value is just being set then we don't want anything returned. That's the way it was in VB6. As in the following.

  Dim strName as String
  
  Property Get Name() as String
    Name = strName
  End Property 

  Property Let Name(strNameIn as String)
   strName  = strNameIn
  End Property

[Joacim Andersson]

Since a Property is constructed with both a set and a get keyword it must have a return type but the property only returns something when the Get part is called.

[Dillinger4]

Posted by Joacim Andersson
Since a Property is constructed with both a set and a get keyword it must have a return type but the property only returns something when the Get part is called.

thanks for replying. No i understand that the property only returns a value when the get part is called. But dosent this seem an akward way to program? It made more sense the way they were doing it before. Also you said "since a propety is constructed with a bolth a get and set keyword." It sounds like in order to construct a property a get and set must be supplied. Do i always need bolth? Thanks.

[Joacim Andersson]

No you don't need both. You can have a read-only property by just adding a Get Property or a Write-Only (but this feels akward) to only provide a Set Property.
Me personally doesn't feel that the way a property is constructed in VB.Net is not akward at all, it's just a different way.
You have, of course, the choise to add two methods as in Java instead of a property construction.
However this way of handling objects is not the normal way for a VB user.

What I don't like with the new Property construction is that the Property Get and Property Set can't have different scoping.
In VB5 and VB6 you could make one public and declare the other as Friend, this can not be done in VB.Net.
So in this case you will need a read-only property and a Friend method to alter the value.

Best regards

[DevGrp]

I aslo get a little confused with the way VB implements the setters and getters.

I think if you have a C++ or a java background, it tend to get a little confusing.