Smart INotifyPropertyChanged version. This allows you to do: public string SomeProperty { get { return base.GetProperty<string> (); } private set { base.SetProperty<string> (value); } } No need to fire anything manually. Name will be determined using CallerMemberNameAttribute.

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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;

namespace Xplat_Core
{
  public class PropertyChangedBase : INotifyPropertyChanged
	{
		private Dictionary<string, object> properties = new Dictionary<string, object> ();

		/// <summary>
		/// Gets the value of a property
		/// </summary>
		/// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
		/// <param name="name"></param>
		protected T GetProperty<T> ([CallerMemberName] string name = null)
		{
			object value = null;
			if (this.properties.TryGetValue (name, out value))
			{
				return value == null ? default(T) : (T)value;
			}
			return default(T);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Sets the value of a property
		/// </summary>
		/// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
		/// <param name="value"></param>
		/// <param name="name"></param>
		protected void SetProperty<T> (T value, [CallerMemberName] string name = null)
		{
			if (Equals (value, this.GetProperty<T> (name)))
			{
				return;
			}
			this.properties [name] = value;
			OnPropertyChanged (name);
		}

		public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

		protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged ([CallerMemberName] string propertyName = null)
		{
			PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
			if (handler != null)
			{
				handler (this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs (propertyName));
			}
		}
	}
}