Property in C#

While learning C#, the Property confused me a lot, as it is very similar to the member variable in class.

there are must  some reasons for its existence, otherwise it will simply replaced by the member variable.

According to my research, I believe the it sometimes acts just as a member variable, but is not limited to this.

The Property can have get and set functions, which can manipulate the value before assigning it to the Property . 

However, If leave the get and set method as empty, it will act just like a member variable.

Apart from this, it can be used by combining with the member variable, using Property to access to the variable, which provides a better Encapsulation. 

The typical example of declare a Property is as following:

Public string ID { get; set; } //after .net framework 3.0

or

Public string ID {

    get 

     {  

          // Property get code

     }

    set

    {  

          //Property set code

     }

}