Where can I use private properties?

Asked May 20 '14 at 10:08

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From what I have learned so far a property should be public and used to access the private fields of a class. What I can not understand is why someone would use a private property and not a private field for something that is used only inside the class itself.

Can someone please explain that to me?

Thanks in advance!

asked May 20 '14 at 10:08

spirosvp

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All the benefits of a property can also be useful in a class. But you don't want access from outside. – Tim Schmelter May 20 '14 at 10:09
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Also see – Dennis_E May 20 '14 at 10:12
One reason: Guard checks cannot be done with fields but properties can. There are many.. – Sriram Sakthivel May 20 '14 at 10:12
A private property is useful to, i.e, execute some common task or behavior when getting or setting a value. Of course, this is just one of its advantages over private fields. – HuorSwords May 20 '14 at 10:15
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See some reason here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3310186/are-there-any-reasons-to-use-private-properties-in-c – Meysam Tolouee May 20 '14 at 10:19
As noted in the comments, the use of private properties for caching values has been *somewhat* superseded by the `Lazy` class. – Matthew Watson May 20 '14 at 10:20
It is absolutely *great* for debugging. With no support for data breakpoints in the debugger, setting a breakpoint on the setter is the next best way. – Hans Passant May 20 '14 at 10:25

Where can I use private properties?

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