How can I access the backing variable of an auto-implemented property?

Question

In the past we declared properties like this:

public class MyClass
{
    private int _age;

    public int Age
    {
          get{ return _age;  }
                  


        

Answer 1

Behind the scenes what happens is the injection of a private member variable, prefixed with <>k__AutomaticallyGeneratedPropertyField#

From C# 3.0 Automatic Properties explained

Although it may be possible to use that private member directly, it's very hacky and unnecessary.