Overview On Access Modifiers

Access modifiers

Access modifiers are an integral part of object-oriented programming. These keywords are used to specify the declared accessibility of a member or a type.

We have 4 types of access modifiers

• Public
• Private
• Protected
• Internal

Public

• There are no restrictions on accessing public members.
• We can access public members anywhere in the code.

Example

Class class1
{
    Public int x;
    Public int y;
}
Class class2
{
    Public static void Main()
    {
        class1 c1 = new class1();
        C1.x = 3;
        C1.y = 5;
        Console.writeline(“x = {
            0
        }, y = {
            0
        }”, c1.x, c1.y);
    }
}

Private

• Access is limited to within the class definition.
• Private members are unable to use outside the class.
• Private is the default access modifier.

Class emp
{
    privateint salary = 10000;
    Public getsalary()
    {
        Return salary;
    }
}
Class Mainclass
{
    Public static void main()
    {
        Emp e = new emp();
        Int s = e.getsalary();
        Console.writeline(“emp salary: ” + s);
    }
}

Protected

• Limited access within the class definition.
• We can access protected members using inheritance.

Class class1
{
    Protected int x = 10;
}
Class class2: class1
{
    Public static void Main()
    {
        Class2 c2 = new class2();
        C2.x = 7;
        Console.writeline(“int value = ”, +c2.x);
    }
}

Internal

• We can declare a class as internal or its members as internal.
• Internal members are accessible only within files in the same assembly (.dll).

Class access
{
    internal string name;
    public void print()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("My name is " + name);
    }
}
}
class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        access ac = new access();
        Console.Write("Enter your name");
        variable ac.name = Console.ReadLine();
        ac.print();
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}