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

HTTP_USER_NAME and HTTP_USER_PASSWORD are the public properties of your class. UserName and UserPwd could be your private field. And you are allowing other people to set or get the values via these public properties. No direct accesss to private propeties. Also you can do some logic inside the get method of the property.Ex : you will have a public property called Age and in the get method of that, you may read the value of your private field called "dateOfBirth" and do some calculation ( CurrentYear-dateOfBirth) and return that as the Age.