Binary compatibility is important when accessing properties of a type defined in another Assembly, i.e. if an Assembly was updated where a Field was changed to

Binary compatibility is important when accessing properties of a type defined in another Assembly, i.e. if an Assembly was updated where a Field was changed to a Property it would break access from dependent Assemblies. In .NET Reflection, Fields and Properties have distinct API's, i.e. fields can be accessed with `type.GetFields()` and properties with `type.GetProperties()`. The API's are basically wrappers around how they work, i.e. Fields let you get/set an instance's field value whereas with Properties you're instead invoking the properties getter/setter method accessors.