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Console.WriteLine("Age: {0}", empAge);

Console.WriteLine("Pay: {0}", currPay);

}

}

Now assume you have created an Employee object named joe. On his birthday, you wish to

increment the age by one. Using traditional accessor and mutator methods, you would need to

write code such as the following:

Employee joe = new Employee();

joe.SetAge(joe.GetAge() + 1);

However, if you encapsulate empAge using a property named Age, you are able to simply write

Employee joe = new Employee();

joe.Age++;

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