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Mr. Gunnerson posts a controversial bit regarding public fields vs. properties.  Followers of Microsoft's Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers and/or FxCop generally follow the no-public-fields rule.  The consensus of the post and comments is that public fields are only acceptable for internal classes or classes compiled with their consumers.  Carry on.