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Is there a difference between Protected Internal and Internal Protected?

public class TestClass { protected internal int FieldA; internal protected int FieldB; } Is there a difference between Protected Internal and Internal Procted Members?
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Protected internal class inside a namespace compiles without error

protected internal class foo { //this compiles without any errors } also internal class bar { public int quix; protected internal int zyx; //this compiles without any errors } Are ...
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protected internal [duplicate]

The C# Language Reference on MSDN defines 'protected internal' as "Access is limited to the current assembly or types derived from the containing class". But from a semantic point of view, 'protected ...
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protected internal class working within class but not working outside

I was trying few things and would like to know why this is happening so. Say, I have a class called A in namespace n and I was trying to create protected internal class B. namespace n { public ...
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Inconsistent accessibility with abstract classes

I have an internal abstract class InternalClassBase and two (also internal) classes InternalClass1 and InternalClass2, which inherit from InternalClassBase. I also have a public abstract class ...
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I have a protected class that I'd like to be a property inside a public class, but accessible to derived classes in the same assembly

I'm using C# 4. The comments explain the purpose of the classes and why they're structured the way they are. /// <summary> /// I want this internal just to reduce the number of publicly /// ...
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C# - Internal Properties “readable” in quickwatch but not using reflection?

I see that the "Quick Watch" window has access to all properties, irrespective of access restrictions (internal, protected, private) of a class in a library, even when the library is referenced in a ...
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Internal and protected in a private api

I work in development team of about 12 and we build a reasonable set of API's that we use on a strictly in-house only basis. Typically all classes and interfaces are public because that is just how ...
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What do you choose, protected or internal?

If I have a class with a method I want protected and internal. I want that only derived classes in the assembly would be able to call it. Since protected internal means protected or internal, you ...
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C# set accessor accessible to all types in assembly, and get assessor only to derivated types. How to?

This property in a type with no access modifier (thus internal access): class SomeType { private int length; internal int Length { get { return length; } set length = value; } ...
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How to limit subclassing of public abstact class to types in same assembly and thus allow protected members typed to internal types

This question is similar to c# internal abstract class, how to hide usage outside but my motiviation is different. Here is the scenario I started with the following: internal class InternalTypeA ...