Is it possible that class A has direct access to private members of class B?
No, of course not. This is against encapsulation - this is the most common answer. However, there is at least one case where this actually happens and is even very important feature of the language.
So the question is : in C#, under which circumstances class A has direct access to private members of another class B?
Easy - all inner classes have access to private members of theirs "host" classes.
ReplyDeletethat's the correct answer.
ReplyDeleteinterestingly, however, I know quite a lot of people who are not aware of this feature of the language.
That`s really interresting. I was so confused whan I red this, that I decided to check it by my own - and yeah: "inner" class really see private field of the host class.
ReplyDeleteBy the way: the "inner" class I call "Nested" (I think this is proper name).
Yes Class A can access private variables of class B but only in following case:-
ReplyDeleteIf Class A is inner class of class B as well as it should friend class of B.
//----check the code below-------------------
class B
{
private int b1 = 5;
class A : B
{
int myval()
{
return b1;
}
}
}