title: how to use set and get methods in visual basic?
body: <p>I'm kind of confuse on how to use get and set in vb</p>
  
  <p>how would i access the get/set method within the class and when i instantiate the class somewhere else?</p>
  
  <p>in java i would make a 2 methods call like get_item set_item and i can just use the the method name i made. to retrieve or set within the class/object or when i instantiate it somewhere else. but in vb there is a property method and 2 methods inside(set,get)? 
  i'm confuse... on how exactly to access these...</p>
  
  <p>so for example if make a property call thing and made a property mstrThing </p>
  
  <pre><code>    Property Thing() As String
  
      Get
          Return mstrThing
      End Get
      Set(ByVal value As String)
          mstrThing = value
      End Set
  
  End Property
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>how would i access Thing's get and set methods?</p>