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= FAQ: How does the -PropertyAccess- mechanism work with inheritance?0x000D0x000AClasses can of course have inheritance but accessing the properties may be a little non-intuitive.0x000D0x000AFor instance, for -ClassAttribute-, the property -Description- from the base type -BaseAttribute- is also present. Unfortunately you get little help from tools like Intellisense in Visual Studio to remember this (unless you implement -BoilerplateCodeProperties-).0x000D0x000AHowever, all the information is contained within -TaggingOfPropertyKeys- so -ARCAPI- for instance (with help from -ARCQuery-) can communicate the relationships clearly to the outside, for instance expressed in Graph QL SDL.0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000AIn general this way of storing properties incidentally also helps with issues like0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000A1) Enabling the AgoRapide concept of -PropertyStream- like serialization (see -ToPropertyStream- and0x000D0x000Adeserialization (see -TryParse-),0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000A2) -TaggingOfPropertyKeys-,0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000Aetc. etc..0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000ASome drawbacks of this mechanism are of course:0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000A1) The risk of increased memory usage. See -MemoryConsumption- for more details about this.0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000A2) Convoluted syntax when accessing properties.0x000D0x000AThis can be alleviated by implementing traditional setters / getters, using the standardized property access mechanism 'behind the scene'.0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000A3) Less static strong typing than what is default in C# (see for instance -AssertTypeIntegrity-).0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000AAll these drawbacks, 1), 2) and 3) can be alleviated by using traditional setters / getters, and also traditional storage. See -ARCDoc- for practical examples of this, especially classes -Demonstrator-, -Apple-, -Orange- and -Banana-.0x000D0x000A0x000D0x000ASee also -BoilerplateCodeProperties- and -BoilerplateCodePropertiesAndStorage-.0x000D0x000A

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