What is automatic properties of .Net 4.0

As we know that we have following way to implement properties
Public class test

Private _Name As String
Public Property Name() As String
Get
Return _Name
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As String)
_Name = Value
End Set
End Property
End Class
Now via automatic properties we can do the same thing like

Public class test
Property Name As String
End class

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Lokesh Kumar

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Refer this link,it will give the clear idea

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/05/automatic-properties-collection-initializers-and-implicit-line-continuation-support-with-vb-2010.aspx

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Tiju Thankachan

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Hi
Property is a way of Accessing/Setting field values ( with or without some conditional stage).
In case of automatic properties the compiler creates a field and handles it internally.
lets say you have property named ID

public int ID { get; set; }

Using refelection if you will try to list out all the fields you can see a field something like
<ID>k__BackingField which is created automatically and is not shown .

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Debata

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