Properties that are read-only, but only outside of the class

Question

Is there a way to create a property that can be changed within the class, but still accessed with objectName.propertyName outside of it? I'm curious if I can access the property without a get method and still not be able to change it outside of the class.

Obviously, readonly doesn't work, because it restricts changes within the class as well.

Answer 1

You can set a different access level on getor set. So this:

public class MyClass
{
    public string MyStringProperty
    {
        get;
        private set;
    }
}

gives you a property that can only be read on the outside, but set by the class itself.