Question

For a cross platform library in C#, I wish to have a certain set of methods marked protected for extensibility purposes. These methods are later accessed by reflection, using meta-programming with attributes

However, on Windows Phone 7 accessing protected methods by reflection isn’t allowed, and instead I wish for them to be marked internal.

So what I’m wondering, is if I could do something like this, in C#, or if there’s a better workaround for it?

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

#if WINDOWS_PHONE
    #define ACCESSOR internal
#else
    #define ACCESSOR protected
#endif

namespace Example
{
    public class MyTestClass
    {
        [MyAttribute]    
        ACCESSOR void MyMethod()
        {
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

You can do this:

[MyAttribute]
#if WINDOWS_PHONE 
internal
#else
protected
#endif
void MyMethod()
{         
} 

But you’re better off making them internal or protected internal.