Controlling access with properties and indexers
Earlier, you created a method named GetOrigin that returned a string containing the name and origin of the person. Languages such as Java do this a lot. C# has a better way: properties.
A property is simply a method (or pair of methods) that act like a field when you want to get or set a value, thereby simplifying the syntax.
Defining read-only properties
In the Person2.cs file, inside the Person class, add the following code to define three properties.
The first property will perform the same role as the GetOrigin method, using the property syntax that works with all versions of C# (although it uses the C# 6-only string interpolation syntax).
The second property will return a greeting message using the ...
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