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Encapsulating Collection Properties Encapsulation is a key aspect of object-oriented programming and software engineering. Unfortunately, many systems fail to properly encapsulate collection properties, resulting in reduced quality. Sponsor - DevIQ Thanks to DevIQ for sponsoring this episode! Check out their list of available courses and how-to videos. Show Notes / Transcript Encapsulation essentially means hiding the inner workings of something and exposing a limited public interface. It helps promote more modular code that is more reliable, since verifying the public interface's behavior provides a high degree of confidence that the object will interact properly with collaborators in a system. One area in which encapsulation often isn't properly followed is with collection properties. Collection Properties Any time you have an object that has a collection of related or child objects, you may find this represented as a collection property. If you're using .NET and Entity Framework, this property is often ref