What is wrong with this getter and setter code?

Questions & Answers
1

I’m following a burgzerg tutorial, this code:

private int BaseValue()
{
	get{ return _baseValue; }
	set{ _baseValue = value; }
}

Is erroring out, there is no difference between mine and the tutorial’s code. His works.

2

You need to define _baseValue as a private int variable. You probably also want BaseValue to be public I would have thought.

3

And the most important thing is, this is not a property. You declated a function / method.
Look:

// function
private int BaseValue()
{
    //get{ return _baseValue; }
    //set{ _baseValue = value; }
}

// property
private int BaseValue
{
    get{ return _baseValue; }
    set{ _baseValue = value; }
}

Every character in your code, unless it’s in a comment, has a meaning to the compiler. putting two brackets () behind a “variable declaration” makes it a function