c#: what is the point in having a purely public property

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Published on 2010-05-25T02:24:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 2:31 UTC
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What is the point in having a property inside a class that simply get and sets a member variable?

What practical difference would be there to just making the variable public?

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