[Feature] Specify the generated ObservableProperty name

[blueshift777]

I would like to contribute an update to the ObservableProperty attribute that would allow the user to specify the resulting property name. This would involve adding a string property, SpecifiedPropertyName, to the ObservableProperty attribute class in addition to a new, overloaded constructor that accepts the specified property name as a parameter. If the SpecifiedPropertyName is not null or whitespace, the property with the specified name is generated. Otherwise, the current method for generating the property name will be used. For example,

[ObservableProperty("SpecialValue")]
private double value;

will generate the observable property,

public double SpecialValue
{
    get => value;
    set
    {
        if (!global::System.Collections.Generic.EqualityComparer<double>.Default.Equals(this.value, value))
        {
            OnSpecialValueChanging(value);
            OnSpecialValueChanging(default, value);
            OnPropertyChanging(global::CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.ComponentModel.__Internals.__KnownINotifyPropertyChangingArgs.SpecialValue);
            this.value = value;
            OnSpecialValueChanged(value);
            OnSpecialValueChanged(default, value);
            OnPropertyChanged(global::CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.ComponentModel.__Internals.__KnownINotifyPropertyChangedArgs.SpecialValue);
        }
    }
}

The purpose of this feature is to allow users to specify the property name when the private member variable does not follow common naming conventions.

[ghost]

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[Sergio0694]

Duplicate of #706. Superseded by #555.

This is also a duplicate of #835, please avoid opening the same proposal multiple times 🙂