Auto-Implemented Properties

image C# 3.0 introduced a feature called auto-implemented properties to reduce the “syntactic ceremony” involved in creating “simple properties” that are nothing but smart fields. Instead of having to declare the backing field and a property accessing that field manually, the following syntax takes care of it all:

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The preceding code is turned into this equivalent:

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Although the accessibility of the generated get and set accessor ...

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