Encapsulation C# newbie

Question

New to C#, and I understand that encapsulation is just a way of \"protecting data\". But I am still unclear. I thought that the point of get and set accessors wer

Answer 1

Because it is easier to change the Code if you want to add the checks/tests later on. Especially if you have many inheritance and many classes in your code it is very hard to change the implementation from a public variable to a public Property.

Moreover you can add to the get and set within the property different attributes, e.g. if you are using reflection. The get and set of the property are internally different methods. If you have just a public variable /field it is not possible to added different properties to the different access ways.