List readonly with a private set

Question

How can I expose a List so that it is readonly, but can be set privately?

This doesn\'t work:

public List myList          


        

Answer 1

Why are you using a List. Sounds like what you really want to expose is IEnumerable

public IEnumerable myList { get; private set; }

Now users of the class can read the items but not chagnge the list.