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

Yeah, but you can easily change it to:

public string MyName { get; private set; }

Plus, properties are used in other scenarios, like DataContracts and Serialization... so, this is a nice feature... (Mostly, syntactic sugar. I think) EDIT: I take that back.. you can apply virtual to it, so it's not the same