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

I think that there is no difference between these two approaches.

Auto-implemented properties is just a quick way to access private members which are created any way.

Example from MSDN:

class Customer
{
    // Auto-Impl Properties for trivial get and set
    public double TotalPurchases { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int CustomerID { get; set; }

    // Constructor
    public Customer(double purchases, string name, int ID)
    {
        TotalPurchases = purchases;
        Name = name;
        CustomerID = ID;
    }
    // Methods
    public string GetContactInfo() {return "ContactInfo";}
    public string GetTransactionHistory() {return "History";}

    // .. Additional methods, events, etc.
}