Hiya Steve,
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>For some reason he has said that he needs it to be a property...not retrieved by a method. Slam dunk in C# :)

Yeah, but IMO, the best practice is to create an interface for the property. This promotes information hiding. The outside world doesn't need to know anything about the object except its interface. This way, the internals can change without breaking any existing code.

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