Difference between two class definitions in c#

Question

Failing finding an answer I can understand, could someone explain the difference between the following:

// One
private Guid mCategoryID;
public Guid CategoryID
{
    get
    {
        return mCategoryID;
    }
    set
    {
        mCategoryID = value;
    }
}
    
// Two
public Guid CategoryID {get; set;}

Is the get/set code in the section above: One doing the same as Two or do they work differently?

Jerry

See here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180860/public-fields-versus-automatic-properties — Niklas, Jul 15 '20 at 07:12
Does [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6001917/what-are-automatic-properties-in-c-sharp-and-what-is-their-purpose) answer your question? — Sweeper, Jul 15 '20 at 07:12
Does this answer your question? [Public Fields versus Automatic Properties](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180860/public-fields-versus-automatic-properties) — Niklas, Jul 15 '20 at 07:12
Sweeper's answers provides it quite simply: There is none, it's [syntactic sugar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar) — MindSwipe, Jul 15 '20 at 07:14
As other have already said, its syntactic sugar indeed. But it also avoids the risk of linking the property to the wrong private variable... I would encourage you to use automatic properties. — Cleptus, Jul 15 '20 at 07:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '20 at 07:27

Yes, Both one and two are same .

A property which contains a both get and set accessors, then we will call it as read-write property.
get accessor, then we will call it as a read-only property. -set accessor, then we will call it as write-only property.

Difference between two class definitions in c#

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