Static Properties

Static members of a class are those which can be accessed without creating an instance of the containing class, similarly static properties can be assessed directly by prefixing the property name with the class name and a dot (.). Static properties should have the keyword static mentioned in their definition.

In the following example we will define a static property and access the same directly without creating an instance of the class.

    public static class clsEmployee

    {

        public static string strName;

        //

        public static string Name

        {

            get

            {

                return strName;

            }

            set

            {

                strName = value;

            }

        }

    }

The static property can be accessed directly without creating an instance of the class clsEmployee as follows.

clsEmployee.Name = "Test Name";