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Simple Namespace Question

So I have a Namespace setup like this

Namespace 1

Public Class A
...
End Class

Public Class B
...
End Class

Public Class C
...
End Class

Public Class D
...
End Class

End Namespace

What I would like to do is only expose A,B and C and Make D only accessable to classes within the namespace. I want to use D as a support class for A,B, and C but not allow it to be called directly.

Any help would be great. Thanks

eventprostrategies

Hmm ... good question. Not entirely sure.

Not a final answer, but -- a workaround for the moment is to make the class private and stick it into each of the public classes. Obviously not a final answer -- I'll be interested to see if it's doable, how you want it -- but, you can always stick a private class into another class (as a helper class or whatnot -- just don't expose methods that require the class as a parameter or return type).

Non-public classes have to be within other classes ... and I don't know how Public Classes can be picky/choosy over who can call them.

tpwells

Try declaring Class D as Protected instead of Public.

http://www.startvbdotnet.com/language/datatypes.aspx

This site has a listing of the access specifiers and what they do.

eventprostrategies

I tried that and got a design-time error -- Protected types can only be declared inside of a class.

Jens Fiederer

Define D as a protected class within superclass S

Let A, B, C Inherit from superclass S

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Fred Goodwin

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Looks like this works best for what I was trying to do. The SuperClass idea works but still opens me up more than I would like.

Thanks for the help.