Question

For C# properties, I can do this:

public class Employee{

 public string Name { get; private set; }

 public Employee(string name){
  Name = name;
 }

}

which means that the Name property can be set within the class Employee & can be read publicly.

But, if I want to restrict the set to only within the constructors of the Employee class, I need to do:

public class Employee{
 public readonly string Name = String.Empty;
 public Employee(string name){
  Name = name;
 }
}

But, for this case, I had to change the property to a field.

Is there any reason this is not possible/allowed in C#:

public class Employee{
 public string Name { get; private readonly set; }
 public Employee(string name){
  Name = name;
 }
}

IMO this will allow us to have properties which can be set only in the constructor & does not require us to change properties to fields…

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use

private readonly string name = Empty.String;
public string Name { get { return name; } }