What are Automatic Properties in C# and what is their purpose?

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dennis picture dennis · May 14, 2011 · Viewed 77.1k times · Source

Could someone provide a very simple explanation of Automatic Properties in C#, their purpose, and maybe some examples? Try to keep things in layman's terms, please!

Answer

Stecya picture Stecya · May 14, 2011

Automatic Properties are used when no additional logic is required in the property accessors.
The declaration would look something like this:

public int SomeProperty { get; set; }

They are just syntactic sugar so you won't need to write the following more lengthy code:

 private int _someField;
 public int SomeProperty 
 {
    get { return _someField;}
    set { _someField = value;}
 }

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