How can we generate getters and setters in Visual Studio?

By generate, do you mean auto-generate? If that's not what you mean:

Visual Studio 2008 has the easiest implementation for this:

public PropertyType PropertyName { get; set; }

In the background this creates an implied instance variable to which your property is stored and retrieved.

However if you want to put in more logic in your Properties, you will have to have an instance variable for it:

private PropertyType _property;

public PropertyType PropertyName
{
    get
    {
        //logic here 
        return _property;
    }
    set
    {
        //logic here
        _property = value;
    }
 }

Previous versions of Visual Studio always used this longhand method as well.

I use Visual Studio 2013 Professional.

• Place your cursor at the line of an instance variable.
  
  
  
  
• Press combine keys Ctrl + R, Ctrl + E, or click the right mouse button. Choose context menu Refactor → Encapsulate Field..., and then press OK.
  
  
  
  
• In Preview Reference Changes - Encapsulate Field dialog, press button Apply.
  
  
  
  
• This is result:
  
  

You also place the cursor for choosing a property. Use menu Edit → Refactor → Encapsulate Field...

• Other information:

  Since C# 3.0 (November 19th 2007), we can use auto-implemented properties (this is merely syntactic sugar).

  And

  private int productID;
  
  public int ProductID
  {
      get { return productID; }
      set { productID = value; }
  }
  

  becomes

  public int ProductID { get; set; }
  

Visual Studio also has a feature that will generate a Property from a private variable.

If you right-click on a variable, in the context menu that pops up, click on the "Refactor" item, and then choose Encapsulate Field.... This will create a getter/setter property for a variable.

I'm not too big a fan of this technique as it is a little bit awkward to use if you have to create a lot of getters/setters, and it puts the property directly below the private field, which bugs me, because I usually have all of my private fields grouped together, and this Visual Studio feature breaks my class' formatting.

Rather than using Ctrl + K, X you can also just type prop and then hit Tab twice.