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M. OlssonC# 8 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5577-3_13

13. Access Levels

Mikael Olsson1 
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HAMMARLAND, Finland
 

Every class member has an accessibility level that determines where the member will be visible. There are six of them available in C#: public, protected, internal, protected internal, private, and private protected, the last of which was added in C# 7.2. The default access level for members of a class is private.

Private Access

All members regardless of access level are accessible in the class in which they are declared, the defining class. This is the only place where a private member can be accessed.
public class MyBase
{
  // Unrestricted access
  public int myPublic;
  // Defining assembly or ...

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