C# Automatic Properties -- setting defaults

Question

What's the easiest/straight-forward way of setting a default value for a C# public property?

// how do I set a default for this?

public string MyProperty { get; set; }

Please don't suggest that I use a private property & implement the get/set public properties. Trying to keep this concise, and don't want to get into an argument about why that's so much better. Thanks.

Answer 1

Just initialize it in the constructor:

public class MyClass
{
    public string MyProperty { get; set; }

    public MyClass()
    {
        MyProperty = "default value";
    }
}

Note that if you have multiple constructors, you'll need to make sure that each of them either sets the property or delegates to another constructor which does.