What does this mean ? public Name {get; set;} [duplicate]

Question

I see this quiet often in C# documentation. But what does it do?

public class Car {    public Name { get; set; } } 

Answer 1

It is shorthand for:

private string _name;  public string Name {     get { return _name; }     set { _name = value; } } 

The compiler generates the member variable. This is called an automatic property.