Why does Property Set throw StackOverflow exception?

Question

I know java and would normally put in getter/setter methods. I am interested in doing it in C# with the following code, but it throws a StackOverflow exception. What am I do

Answer 1

You are setting the property name inside your property--not the field name. This would work better:

private string m_firstName;

public String firstName;
{
    get
    {
        return m_firstName;
    }
    set
    {
        m_firstName = value;
    }
}