Why should I avoid using Properties in C#?

Question

In his excellent book, CLR Via C#, Jeffrey Richter said that he doesn\'t like properties, and recommends not to use them. He gave some reason, but I don\'t really understand

Answer 1

I don't agree with Jeffrey Richter, but I can guess why he doesn't like properties (I haven't read his book).

Even though, properties are just like methods (implementation-wise), as a user of a class, I expect that its properties behave "more or less" like a public field, e.g:

• there's no time-consuming operation going on inside the property getter/setter
• the property getter has no side effects (calling it multiple times, does not change the result)

Unfortunately, I have seen properties which did not behave that way. But the problem are not the properties themselves, but the people who implemented them. So it just requires some education.