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

There is a time when I consider not using properties, and that is in writing .Net Compact Framework code. The CF JIT compiler does not perform the same optimisation as the desktop JIT compiler and does not optimise simple property accessors, so in this case adding a simple property causes a small amount of code bloat over using a public field. Usually this wouldn't be an issue, but almost always in the Compact Framework world you are up against tight memory constraints, so even tiny savings like this do count.