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Leveraging a GUI tool to quickly construct a class.

In this article I will demonstrate Visual Studio’s Class Diagram tool which allows developers to quickly construct a C# class with much less errors.

First, I’ll create a new model class to demonstrate this feature.

Next, I’ll invoke the tool.

Now I’m presented with a new class diagram with designer pane and property window.

I’ll right-click the Class object to leverage the context menu to create my FirstName property.

After naming my property I’ll change its datatype to string.

By double-clicking the Class object, I’m taken to my new class’s code.

Since this property need only support trivial get/set operations I prefer to use auto-implemented properties available since C# 3.0.

Now I’ll repeat the process to create a more robust Model.