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

You can't, it's a language feature as opposed to a IDE feature. To be honest i'd prefer then IDE to add the private variable in for you. I agree that it is slightly weird for the class to internally have to use the public entry point to access its own variables. Hence I don't use this new feature that much myself.