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The set keyword defines an accessor method in a property or indexer that assigns a value to the property or the indexer element. For more information and examples, see Properties, Auto-Implemented Properties, and Indexers.
The following example defines both a get and a set accessor for a property named Seconds. It uses a private field named _seconds to back the property value.
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Often, the set accessor consists of a single statement that assigns a value, as it did in the previous example. You can implement the set accessor as an expression-bodied member. The following example implements both the get and the set accessors as expression-bodied members.
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For simple cases in which a property's get and set accessors perform no other operation than setting or retrieving a value in a private backing field, you can take advantage of the C# compiler's support for auto-implemented properties. The following example implements Hours as an auto-implemented property.
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