#312 – Accessibility of Methods in a Class
April 27, 2011 Leave a comment
You can apply access modifiers to methods defined in a class to define their accessibility. Accessibility dictates what other code is allowed to call the method.
- public – Any code can call the method
- private – Only code in the defining class can call the method
- protected – Code in the defining class or derived classes can call the method
- internal – Any code in the defining assembly can call the method
- protected internal – Code in the defining assembly or in derived classes can call the method
public class Dog { public void BarkALot() { for (int i = 1; i < 30; i++) BarkOnce(); } // Only this class can call private void BarkOnce() { Say("Woof"); } // Subclass can call protected void BarkYourName() { Say(Name); } // Code in same assembly can call internal void DumpBarkCount() { Say(numBarks); } // Code in same assembly or subclass can call protected internal void BarkNameTwice() { Say(Name); Say(Name); } }