Accessing members in your own class: use (auto)properties or not?

Question

I\'ve created this \"question\" as a community-wiki, because there is no right or wrong answer. I only would like to know how the community feels about this specific issue.

Answer 1

This is a fairly frequently asked question. Here's my article that describes some of the issues:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2009/01/14/automatic-vs-explicit-properties.aspx