I am strongly in favor of automatic properties. They make code more readable and more concise. And that's often no easy task. However, I have seen a lot of people get tripped up by automatic properties because of the restriction that you must implement...

As of C# 3.0, a controversial yet exceptionally convenient feature known as extension methods have been added. The gist of the feature is to allow developer's the ability to syntactically extend any object. As with any language feature, it can be readily misused or abused. However, that has never stopped us from accepting new constructs in order to make code clearer and more concise....