How to avoid stack overflow errors when defining set accessor in C#

Question

People of stackoverflow. I am new to c# and this is the first time I have not been able to find an answer to one of my elementary questions. Who can help me?!I am trying to

Answer 1

You need a backing field if you are trying to use set and get with your property.

private string _headline; //backing field.

public string Headline
{
    get { return _headline; }
    set { _headline = value; }
} 

In your current code, you are trying to set your property recursively, and thus resulting in stackoverflow exception