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static void Main(string[] args)

{

Console.WriteLine("***** Fun with Encapsulation *****\n");

Employee emp = new Employee("Marvin", 456, 30000);

emp.GiveBonus(1000);

emp.DisplayStats();

// Set and get the Name property.

emp.Name = "Marv";

Console.WriteLine("Employee is named: {0}", emp.Name);

Console.ReadLine();

}

Properties (as opposed to accessors and mutators) also make your types easier to manipulate,

in that properties are able to respond to the intrinsic operators of C#. To illustrate, assume that the

Employee class type has an internal private member variable representing the age of the employee.

Here is the relevant update:

class Employee

{

...

private int empAge;

public int Age

{

get { return empAge; }

set { empAge = value; }

}

// Constructors

public Employee() {}

public Employee(string name, int age, int id, float pay)

{

empName = name;

empID = id;

empAge = age;

currPay = pay;

}

public void DisplayStats()

{

Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}", empName);

Console.WriteLine("ID: {0}", empID);