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Encapsulation Using Traditional Accessors and Mutators

Over the remaining pages in this chapter, we will be building a fairly complete class that models a

general employee. To get the ball rolling, create a new Console Application named EmployeeApp

and insert a new class file (named Employee.cs) using the Project ➤ Add class menu item. Update

the Employee class with the following fields, methods, and constructors:

class Employee

{

// Field data.

private string empName;

private int empID;

private float currPay;

// Constructors.

public Employee() {}

public Employee(string name, int id, float pay)

{

empName = name;

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empID = id;

currPay = pay;

}

// Members.

public void GiveBonus(float amount)

{

currPay += amount;

}

public void DisplayStats()

{

Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}", empName);

Console.WriteLine("ID: {0}", empID);

Console.WriteLine("Pay: {0}", currPay);

}

}

Notice that the fields of the Employee class are currently defined using the private access key-

word. Given this, the empName, empID, and currPay fields are not directly accessible from an object

variable:

static void Main(string[] args)

{