Hide Protected Property from 2nd Child Class

Question

Hello,

I have a Abstract Class OfficeAddinBase with a readonly property OfficeApplication.  I only want this property visuable in the ExcelAddinBase which inherits the OfficeAddinBase class.  When i create a class say lets say Class1 that inherits ExcelAddinBase i do not want it to be able to see the OfficeApplication Property, only the ExcelAddinBase.

Thanks

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Answer 1

There is no way to do that (in C#).  If you make the property visible to your subclasses, it will be visible to all of them, not just a single one.

 

This is by design - a class should not be designed in a way where it requires knowledge of other classes that will use it.

 

That being said, if you MUST work around this, you can put these two types into a separate assembly.  Instead of making that property protected, you could mark it as internal.  If ExcelAddinBase and OfficeAddinBase are the only two classes in that assembly, they will be the only ones who can see that property.

 

 

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Answer 2

Thank you that works perfect.  I was creating the addinbase classes in a seperate assembly anyways so that works.

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