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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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Thornik12-Sep-22 8:26
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Dave DD12-Sep-22 8:45
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F Margueirat12-Sep-22 11:02
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obermd12-Sep-22 3:58
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GeneralC# 6, you dirty dog! Pin
PIEBALDconsult27-Aug-22 9:57
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Richard Deeming29-Aug-22 21:15
mveRichard Deeming29-Aug-22 21:15 
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
it's a coding error
That depends on your intention.

If you wanted a property which could be modified by any code within your class, then yes.

If you wanted a true "read-only" property, which can only be initialized in the constructor or an initializer, then omitting the private set; is perfectly correct.
C#
public class Foo
{
    public int Bar { get; private set; }
    public int Baz { get; }
    
    public Foo(int bar, int baz)
    {
        Bar = bar; // Fine
        Baz = baz; // Also fine
    }
    
    public void Groot()
    {
        Bar = 42; // Compiles and runs
        Baz = 42; // Compiler error CS0200 - Property or indexer 'Foo.Baz' cannot be assigned to -- it is read-only
    }
}




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GeneralRe: C# 6, you dirty dog! Pin
PIEBALDconsult30-Aug-22 3:35
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James Curran1-Sep-22 0:04
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GeneralTwo of my most frequent issues with .net inconsistencies PinPopular
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