ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Using Access Modifiers

C# supports the following access modifiers, which you can use when declaring a class, method, or property:

• Public— A public class, method, or property has no access restrictions.

• Protected— A protected method or property can be accessed only within the class itself or a derived class.

• Internal— An internal class, method, or property can be accessed only by a component within the same assembly (dll file). Because ASP.NET pages are compiled into different assemblies than the contents of the App_Code folder, you cannot access an internal member of a class outside of the App_Code folder.

• Private— A private class, method, or property can be accessed only within the class itself.

Visual Basic .NET supports the following ...