Right, you didn't say you wanted to 'change' the value, just 'access' it, so what I wrote above is a read only property.

public bool MyProperty
{
  get
  {
    return true;
  }
  set
  {
    // do something with 'value' here.
    Console.WriteLine(value);
  }
}

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