Best Practice on local use of Private Field x Property

Question

When inside a class you have a private fiels and expose that field on a public property, which one should I use from inside the class?

Below you is an example on what I

Answer 1

IMO you should be using the Property accessor whenever possible. This is because you don't have to worry about any internal logic that might be available when you have an a property.

A good example of where this happens is in the code behind in a Linq DataContext.

check this out...

[Column(Storage="_ReviewType", DbType="TinyInt NOT NULL")]
public byte ReviewType
{
    get
    {
        return this._ReviewType;
    }
    set
    {
        if ((this._ReviewType != value))
        {
            this.OnReviewTypeChanging(value);
            this.SendPropertyChanging();
            this._ReviewType = value;
            this.SendPropertyChanged("ReviewType");
            this.OnReviewTypeChanged();
        }
    }
}

Notice all that logic in the 'setter'?

This is why it's important to start getting into the practice of calling your Properties instead of fields, IMO.