What is a Friendless Class in C#? I heard someone refer to it but I googled it online and found nothing.

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Vulpes · Answer

Well in C++ (as opposed to C#) a friend of some class C is a class or function which is not a member of C but is given access to C's private or protected members. A friendless class is therefore a class which has no friends. C# has no correspoding concept but it does support friend assemblies which are assemblies which are given access to the internal types of other assemblies using the InternalsVisibleTo attribute. However I have never heard of anyone referring to an assembly as friendless :)

What is a "Friendless Class" in C#? I heard someone refer to it but I googled it online and found nothing.