What is the purpose of the “get” and “set” properties in C#

Question

I saw some get set method to set values. Can anyone tell me the purpose of this?

public string HTTP_USER_NAME
{
      get 
      {
            return UserNam         


        

Answer 1

Check these links,.. they gives clear explanation.

http://www.dotnetperls.com/property

http://code.anjanesh.net/2008/02/property-getters-setters.html

if UserName and UserPwd are class variables, better to use like this

_userName 
_userPwd