The wise way to define a string class

Question

I wonder if you could tell me whether it is a wise way to declare a string class in C#:

class Item
    {
        public string id = "";
        public string name = "";
        public string title = "";
        public string value = "";
        public string type = "";
        public string tagname = "";
}
Their value is to be added in a program.

Vulpes · Answer

Well as it's not a public class it's OK if you're just writing code on your own. However although it's more verbose you'd be much more likely to see something like this in professionally written C# code which avoids public fields preferring to always use properties instead. It also gives the user the option of setting the property values in an overloaded constructor: class Item { public string Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public string Title { get; set; } public string Value { get; set; } public string Type { get; set; } public string Tagname { get; set; } public Item() { // either leave as null or set to empty strings Id = ; Name = ; Title = ; Value = ; Type = ; Tagname = ; } public Item(string id string name string title string value string type string tagname) { Id = id; Name = name; Title = title; Value = value; Type = type; Tagname = tagname; } }