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C# 3.0 introduces a great new feature called Automatic Properties, and if you haven’t already read about them, I would encourage you to read Scott Guthrie's introductory post. As great as they are and as much time as they save, Automatic Properties have a serious drawback – you can’t set the default value of the property. Instead, the compiler will initialize value properties to 0, reference properties to null, and enum’s to the first member, and while this might work for some applications, it wasn’t working for mine.