Question

I am setting the property of a class like that

public string Name { get; set; }

But i can also set the property like that

public string Name { get; private set; }

I want to know the difference between these? and what scope they have?

Answer 1

For the case public string Name { get; private set; }
Using private set means that the property is ReadOnly from the outside. Its useful when you have a read only property and don’t want to explicitly declare the backing variable.

public string Name { get; private set; } it is same as :

private string _Name;
public string Name
{
    get { return _Name; }
    private set { _Name = value; }
}