How to expose a collection property? [closed]

Answer 1

I usually go for this, a public getter that returns System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection:

public ReadOnlyCollection<SomeClass> Collection
{
    get
    {
         return new ReadOnlyCollection<SomeClass>(myList);
    }
}

And public methods on the object to modify the collection.

Clear();
Add(SomeClass class);

If the class is supposed to be a repository for other people to mess with then I just expose the private variable as per method #1 as it saves writing your own API, but I tend to shy away from that in production code.