>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I looked at the VFP 9 help but the explanation of Access method is not easily understood. Could someone explain the purpose, the use, and advantages of using the Access Method (e.g. something_Access).
>>>
>>>TIA
>>
>>Tamar explains it well in this article: http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Articles/Put%20Access%20methods%20to%20work.pdf
>>And this is one of Doug's articles: http://doughennig.com/Papers/Pub/AccessAssign.pdf
>
>Thank you, Tore.

You're welcome.

Just to give you one sample. I use business classes for all my tables. For each field I have access methods, which all are something like this:

*Myfield_access
Return Evaluate(Myfield)

So when I want to read this field value, I simply call MyClass.MyField.

Likewise, I have an "opposite" method Myfield_assign which I use to change the field value.