What's with all the Get/Set lines?

[alan93]

The reasons for using properties, and ALWAYS keeping data private, is that it gives you the flexability to change the internal representation without effecting your clients. It also provides "hooks" for intercepting all read/write accesses.

I'm sure you had some specific examples in mind as you were providing this broad and generalized statement. ? And it could be that your examples are not applicable to my scenarios but I'm willing to see if they are.
In the past i did most of my hooking after the var is assigned a value so I'm not sure of the benefit of before its assigned. Seem like 6-to-1 1/2 dozen to the other.

There is (almost) nevery a reason to have data members directly exposed.

The words "quick", "easy", "full access" don't come to mind here?