Removing Get prefixed methods in favor of Properties

[geek911]

One of the most confusing part to new .Net developers is when to Prefix a Get to a method instead of using a property. In my opinion it makes more sense to refectore the CoreFX to use Properties instead of Get methods. For example, GetHashCode() can be replace with a property HashCode. What do you think? Is it a good idea?

[huoyaoyuan]

First, existing apis can never change.

Although property getters and GetXXX methods are close in the signature, there are different convensional expectation to them.
Properties are expected to be quick, reproducible and no side-effect. So the debugger can show a property at any time without worrying about those. Methods are expected to have calculations to do, or tracking the newly created object.