Protected vs. Private Access

Question

What is protected access? What are some of the relative merits of using protected access vs. private access in base classes?

Jignesh Trivedi · Answer

hi As explain above protected is also access by own class as well as its friend class(means derived class or sub class) so it you have requirement like member is only access by itseft and its friend class than you must define this member as a protected. when you want to hide member from the outer world then you must define this meber as private. hope this will help you.

Steph Bassos · Answer

Why would you want to use a protected access over a private access?

Jignesh Trivedi · Answer

hi protected is only used/accessed by class and any sub class (derived class). whereas private can only access by class it seft. Please refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173121.aspx hope this will help you.