Setting a default value for property that is mutable in C#

I have a property 

public int active { get; set; }

That in my db has a default value of 1. I would like to have this property default to 1 if not otherwise specified

public partial class test
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string test1 { get; set; }
    public int active { get; set; }
}

I saw that in c# 6 you can do

public int active { get; set; } = 1

But I am not using c# 6 :(. Thanks for the advice. (Very, very new to c# / OOP)

Jon Skeet
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Just set it in the constructor:

public partial class Test
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Test1 { get; set; }
    public int Active { get; set; }

    public Test()
    {
        Active = 1;
    }
}

I think that's simpler than avoiding the automatically-implemented property just for the sake of defaulting...

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