Accessors and mutators in C#

Accessors and mutators do the job of retrieving and storing the data to a class member. The class member will be usually private and hence cannot be accessed directly by the object.

The following code provides a hint of the same

       public enum playerType { ClassA, ClassB, ClassC, Contract }
       private playerType _PlayerType;
       string Name;
       string Age;
       string Phone;


       #endregion

       #region properties
       public playerType PlayerType
       {
           //accessor
           get { return _PlayerType; }

           //mutator
           set
           {
               _PlayerType = value;
           }

       }

Here _PlayerType is declared as private. This can be however accessed in the main program as shown below:

           ClassTeam CT = new ClassTeam();
           CT.PlayerType = ClassTeam.playerType.Contract; //Calls the Mutator
           MessageBox.Show(CT.PlayerType.ToString()); // Calls the Accessor

The statement CT.PlayerType = ClassTeam.playerType.Contract; Calls the Mutator (set property) and sets the value and CT.PlayerType.ToString() uses Get property and retrieves the value