I am writing a function that returns a reference to an object of some encapsulated data structure and I want nobody to be able to change the object using that reference, is it possible to do this in c#?
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I am writing a function that returns a reference to an object of some encapsulated data structure and I want nobody to be able to change the object using that reference, is it possible to do this in c#?
If the object that you are returning is immutable, that will work fine.
If not, you can return a wrapper object that only exposes read-only properties.