#303 – Accessibility of Class Members
April 16, 2011 9 Comments
Members of a class can have different kinds of accessibility. An accessibility keyword indicates what source code can access the member. The different types of accessibility are:
| Accessibility Keyword | Description |
| public | All code can access the member |
| private | Only other code in the class can access the member |
| protected | Code in this class or any class that inherits from this class can access |
| internal | Code in files in the same assembly (.dll or .exe) can access |
| protected internal | Code in the same assembly or in classes that inherit from this class can access |
Accessibility keywords can apply to the following kinds of members of a class: fields, properties, methods, constants, indexers, events, constructors and nested types. They can apply to both instance and static members.
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