Internal vs Private Access Modifiers

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What is the difference between the internal and private access modifiers in C

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internal members are accessible within the assembly (only accessible in the same project)

private members are accessible within the same class

Example for Beginners

There are 2 projects in a solution (Project1, Project2) and Project1 has a reference to Project2.

Public method written in Project2 will be accessible in Project2 and the Project1
Internal method written in Project2 will be accessible in Project2 only but not in Project1
private method written in class1 of Project2 will only be accessible to the same class. It will neither be accessible in other classes of Project 2 not in Project 1.

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internal members are visible to all code in the assembly they are declared in   And to other assemblies referenced using the  InternalsVisibleTo  attribute   private members are visible only to the declaring class    including nested classes   An outer  non-nested  class cannot be declared private  as there is no containing scope to make it private to   To answer the question you forgot to ask  protected members are like private members  but are also visible in all classes that inherit the declaring type    But only on an expression of at least the type of the current class

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Private members are accessible only within the body of the class or the struct in which they are declared   Internal types or members are accessible only within files in the same assembly

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private - encapsulations in class scope struct ect    internal - encapsulation in assemblies

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internal is for assembly scope  i e  only accessible from code in the same  exe or  dll   private is for class scope  i e  accessible only from code in the same class

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Find an explanation below  You can check this link for more details - http   www dotnetbull com 2013 10 public-protected-private-internal-access-modifier-in-c html  Private  - Private members are only accessible within the own type  Own class    Internal  - Internal member are accessible only within the assembly by inheritance  its derived type  or by instance of class     Reference    dotnetbull - what is access modifier in c

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Internal will allow you to reference  say  a Data Access static class  for thread safety  between multiple business logic classes  while not subscribing them to inherit that class trip over each other in connection pools  and to ultimately avoid allowing a DAL class to promote access at the public level   This has countless backings in design and best practices   Entity Framework makes good use of this type of access

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