Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Kick Start

Protecting Nested Classes

You can nest classes inside other classes in C#, and nested classes can access members of the host class, even private members. Nested classes work much like any other class member when it comes to inheritance; for example, say that that the Window class has a nested Point class, which keeps track of the upper-left point of the window. We might make the Point class protected like this:

public class Window
{
  private Point location;

  public Window(int x, int y)
  {
    this.location = new Point(x, y);
  }

  public Window()
  {
    this.location = new Point(100, 100);
  }

  public virtual void Open()
  {
    System.Console.WriteLine("Opening window at [{0}, {1}]",
    location.x, location.y);
  }

  protected class Point
					  {
					    public int x, y;
					 public ...