>Would you guys agree that it generally is a bad programming practice to use this.value within a control because it makes the code considerably harder to maintain. Using the actual variable or field to which the control is bound is much better.
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>Right???

The statement is too broad. There are right and wrong places for both. For example, in the InteractiveChange event of a textbox, referencing the value of the underlying field instead of the value of the control gives 2 different values, because a control's value is not written to the controlsource until control.lostfocus.