>Jim,
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>Thanks a lot for your response. I was not aware of this technique. It makes our life much easier. And I found, that Mike already used it in pagecount_assign method. So, we should just use the same methods for all other properties. Right?

Nadya,

I would suggest ONLY using assign and/or access methods when they are required because they cause a performance hit on accessing and assigning to properties and if they aren't needed then there is no benefit of having them there.