Can't find initial values for properties?

[jcmrva]

Apologies in advance if I'm filing an issue over nothing, but given a property:

public string Details { get; set; } = "Disappearing text";

How do I get the string value?

I dug into PropertyDefinition and the backing fields and didn't find anything.

If it not currently possible, can this be added?

[jbevain]

Hi @jcmrva,

I suggest you open the assembly in a tool like ILSpy. You'll see that the property of backing field is set in the constructor of your type.

From a metadata perspective, there's nothing tying that value to a field or a property. It's just code.