Hi,
I am writing an application with a large number of various classes, and
I want some of them to have Friend access to protected members of other
classes.
i.e. I want class A to have access to internal members of Class B
In C++ this was simple, as in the definition for class B, I would
declare calss A as a friend.
Seeing that C# had a friend keyword I thought this was going to be easy,
only to discover, that in typical Microsoft style, the friend keyword
has been changed to mean something completely different!
The only option I have come up with so far is to make public anything I
need to access from another class, but this doesn't really solve my
problem, as I want to make sure these functions can only be accessed by
the classes I specify.
Can anyone tell me how I can achieve the desired results please?
Thankyou in advance.
Paul Cheetham.
8  13726 
Paul,
The closest thing you can do is use the internal keyword, and keep the
classes in the same assembly.
Hope this helps.
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"Paul Cheetham" <PA******@dsl.p ipex.com> wrote in message
news:ue******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl... Hi,
I am writing an application with a large number of various classes, and I
want some of them to have Friend access to protected members of other
classes.
i.e. I want class A to have access to internal members of Class B
In C++ this was simple, as in the definition for class B, I would declare
calss A as a friend.
Seeing that C# had a friend keyword I thought this was going to be easy,
only to discover, that in typical Microsoft style, the friend keyword has
been changed to mean something completely different!
The only option I have come up with so far is to make public anything I
need to access from another class, but this doesn't really solve my
problem, as I want to make sure these functions can only be accessed by
the classes I specify.
Can anyone tell me how I can achieve the desired results please?
Thankyou in advance.
Paul Cheetham.
"Paul Cheetham" <PA******@dsl.p ipex.com> wrote in message
news:ue******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl... Hi,
I am writing an application with a large number of various classes, and I want some of them to
have Friend access to protected members of other classes.
i.e. I want class A to have access to internal members of Class B
In C++ this was simple, as in the definition for class B, I would declare calss A as a friend.
Seeing that C# had a friend keyword I thought this was going to be easy, only to discover, that in
typical Microsoft style, the friend keyword has been changed to mean something completely
different!
The only option I have come up with so far is to make public anything I need to access from
another class, but this doesn't really solve my problem, as I want to make sure these functions
can only be accessed by the classes I specify.
Can anyone tell me how I can achieve the desired results please?
Check out the "internal" access modifier.
It's not exactly the same, but you can achieve similar results
Bill
Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote: Paul,
The closest thing you can do is use the internal keyword, and keep the
classes in the same assembly.
Hope this helps.
Thankyou.
Unfortunately it doesn't help as all my classes need to be available
from outside the assembly.
I just can't believe that MS have destroyed such a useful type modifier!
Thanks.
Paul
I think it is a matter of opinion whether or not it is useful. If I had
to hazard a guess, the thinking at MS would be that types that are so
closely related should be packaged together.
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"Paul Cheetham" <PA******@dsl.p ipex.com> wrote in message
news:ep******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl... Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote: Paul,
The closest thing you can do is use the internal keyword, and keep
the classes in the same assembly.
Hope this helps.
Thankyou.
Unfortunately it doesn't help as all my classes need to be available from
outside the assembly.
I just can't believe that MS have destroyed such a useful type modifier!
Thanks.
Paul
"Paul Cheetham" <PA******@dsl.p ipex.com> wrote in message
news:ep******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl... Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote: Paul,
The closest thing you can do is use the internal keyword, and keep the classes in the same
assembly.
Hope this helps.
Thankyou.
Unfortunately it doesn't help as all my classes need to be available from outside the assembly.
You misunderstand.
The class can be public with SOME methods declared internal
Use these internal methods for 'friend' behavior
Outside of the assembly all of the public stuff will be visible
I just can't believe that MS have destroyed such a useful type modifier!
Wait till you know the facts before you bash them on this one.
Bill
See if the new Friend Assemblies concept of .NET Framework 2.0 meets your
needs:
Friend Assemblies (C# Programming Guide) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0tke9fxk.aspx
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"Paul Cheetham" <PA******@dsl.p ipex.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:ep******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl... Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote: Paul,
The closest thing you can do is use the internal keyword, and keep
the classes in the same assembly.
Hope this helps.
Thankyou.
Unfortunately it doesn't help as all my classes need to be available from
outside the assembly.
I just can't believe that MS have destroyed such a useful type modifier!
Thanks.
Paul
Bill Butler wrote: You misunderstand.
The class can be public with SOME methods declared internal
Use these internal methods for 'friend' behavior
Outside of the assembly all of the public stuff will be visible
OK now I get it.
Certainly not perfect, as I was wanting to hide it more than that, but a
definite improvement on public.
Thankyou.
Paul
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:14:17 +0100, Paul Cheetham
<PA******@dsl.p ipex.com> wrote: Seeing that C# had a friend keyword
Excuse me, but when was that? I've never seen a friend keyword in C#.
Last I checked only C++ and Visual Basic had that keyword (and the VB
variant means the same as "internal" in C#).
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