[to11mtm]

... I could be wrong, but I -thought- it was possible for the JIT to see there are no side effects and inline on property access (so long as the property is not a virtual call or otherwise able to devirt.)

.ElementAt() OTOH has a chance to throw in most implementations AFAIR so yeah, a bit of a moot point in this case.

Edited to add:

Actually, there -could- still be side effects in the case of .Name on a class, specifically, it's possible that .ElementAt() could return a null. I'm not sure what cases (if any) that the JIT could get around that.

OTOH, in the case of a struct, as long as .ElementAt() -doesn't- throw, .Name will always return regardless of if it is a property or field, and as part of a struct the compiler should do a good job of inlining as long as the access has no side effects (and you don't have too many fields on the struct!)