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Automatic Properties were a nice addition to C# 3 and I use them all the time. A lot of people may already know this but somehow I only found out this week; you can create a read only automatic property simply by adding the ‘private’ keyword before ‘set’:

public class UserEventArgs : EventArgs
{
    public UserEventArgs(int userID)
    {
        UserID = userID;
    }

    public int UserID { get; private set; }
}