Rectangle.X vs Rectangle.Left

Question

I see that the System.Drawing.Rectangle class has two sets of properties:

• X, Y, Width, Height
• Left, Top, Right, Bottom

The difference between Width and Right are obvious. But I don't understand the reasoning behind the Left and Top properties.

Can these be used interchangeably along with X and Y, or am I missing something obvious? Is there a convention for when I should use which?

Answer 1

Left is purely a wrapper around the X property.

The same goes for Top / Y.

As noted by hakononakani, they are both readonly - in order to set the properties you need to use X and Y.

Answer 2

Left only gets the x-coordinate. However, X gets or sets the x-coordinate. Same applies to Top and Y.