What is the best practice for using public fields?

Question

When I write a class I always expose private fields through a public property like this:

private int _MyField;
public int MyField
{ get{return _MyField; }
         


        

Answer 1

What is the best practice for using public fields?

“Don’t.” See also: Should protected attributes always be banned? which concerns protected fields but what is said there is even more true for public ones.