Public Fields versus Automatic Properties

Question

We\'re often told we should protect encapsulation by making getter and setter methods (properties in C#) for class fields, instead of exposing the fields to the outside worl

Answer 1

My pov after did some researches

1. Validation.
2. Allow overriding the accessor to change the behaviour of a property.
3. Debugging purpose. We'll be able to know when and what the property change by setting a breakpoint in the accessor.
4. We can have a field set-only. For instance, public set() and private get(). This is not possible with the public field.

It really gives us more possibility and extensibility.