C#•3y ago

❔ Please can someone explain me the point of using Automatic Properties get; set;

From what I understood, automatic properties get; set; should be used instead of public fields in classes (even though they do the same thing). If I want to customize properties later I can't use automatic properties anymore... So what is the point of using them?

Pobiega•9/25/23, 11:04 AM

You can later customize them without changing the external API

Pobiega•9/25/23, 11:04 AM

if you have an auto-prop and later turn it into a bodied-prop, its still a property, with the same name, and still has a getter and a setter. Its functionally identical, as far as other code is concerned

Pobiega•9/25/23, 11:05 AM

if you change something from a field to a property, it changes type as far as reflection is concerned, and several important tools rely on type metadata - serializers for example