Question

If I have a property that I want to let inheritors write to, but keep readonly externally, what is the preferred way to implement this? I usually go with something like this:

private object m_myProp; public object MyProp {     get { return m_myProp; } } protected void SetMyProp(object value) {     m_myProp = value; } 

Is there a better way?

Answer 1

private object m_myProp; public object MyProp {     get { return m_myProp; }     protected set { m_myProp = value; } } 

Or in C# 3.0

public object MyProp {get; protected set;}