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Asked: 2026-06-06T15:18:02+00:00

My question may be a part of an old topic – properties vs fields.

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My question may be a part of an old topic – “properties vs fields”.

I have situation where variable is read-only for outside class but needs to be modified inside a class. I can approach it in 2 ways:

First:

private Type m_Field;
public Type MyProperty { get { return m_Field; } }

Second:

public Type MyProperty { get; private set; }

After reading several articles (that mostly covered benefits of using public properties instead of public fields) I did not get idea if the second method has some advantage over the first one but writing less code. I am interested which one will be better practice to use in projects (and why) or it’s just a personal choice.

Maybe this question does not belong to SO so I apologize in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The second version produces less clutter, but is less flexible. I suggest you use the second version until you run into a situation that makes the first version necessary and then refactor – changes will be local to the class anyway, so don’t worry too much about that!

    Generally, writing less code is a good idea. The less code you write, the less bugs you produce 🙂

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