C# Access Modifiers

REFERENCE: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/access-modifiers-in-c-sharp/

Access Modifiers are keywords that define the accessibility of a member, class or datatype in a program. These are mainly used to restrict unwanted data manipulation by external programs or classes. There are 4 access modifiers (public, protected, internal, private) which defines the 6 accessibility levels as follows:

• public
• protected
• internal
• protected internal
• private
• private protected

The Accessibility table of these modifiers is given below:

	public	protected	internal	protected internal	private	private protected
Entire program	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Containing class	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Current assembly	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Derived types	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Derived types within current assembly	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes