automatic property with default value [duplicate]

Answer 1

Best you can do is set it in the constructor, you cannot make changes within automatic properties, you will need a backing field and implement the setter/getter yourself otherwise.

Using a backing field you can write something like this:

private int _howHigh = 0;
public int HowHigh { get {return _howHigh; }  set { _howHigh = value; } }