C# 3.0 auto-properties — useful or not? [closed]

Answer 1

The three big downsides to using fields instead of properties are:

1. You can't databind to a field whereas you can to a property
2. If you start off using a field, you can't later (easily) change them to a property
3. There are some attributes that you can add to a property that you can't add to a field