Properties in C#

It is a common practice among developers to design components which  have properties. C# has made it very simple to use properties. Properties are accessor methods whose job it is to retrieve and set the values of fields. It provides a way to protect a field in a class by reading and writing and also a way to support object-oriented concept of encapsulation.

For example, take a look at the following code:

public class University {
	private string univName;
	public string univID
	{
		get
		{
			return univName;
		}
		set
		{
			univName = value;
		}
	}
}			

To use the property :

University myUniv = new University();

myUniv.univID = "rice";

string name = myUniv.univID;

Note that value is a special value which represents the value passed in from the user .value has the type of the property in context.