>>IIRC the VFP behavior was pretty much like a .net automatic property - i.e get/set methods were created which then could be overridden using the xxx_access and xxx_assign methods.
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>VFP had get/set?

Don't know if get/set was mentioned exlicitly but yes.
If you add a property to a class then you can specify whether to generate access and assign methods which are the equivalent of .net get/set. (Had to actually fire up VFP to remind myself how it worked :-} )