Question

I have a class like this

internal class  Report
{
    public Company TargetCompany { get; private set; }

    .... // other stuff
}

I do not want any one to be able to do this

Report r = GetReport();

Company c = r.TargetCompany;

but instead always use

r.TargetCompany 

when they want access to the Company variable.

Is that possible? Does that even make sense?

Answer 1

You can expose a proxy interface in Report, which calls the equivalent interface in Company, and make Company private, so that you completely control (encapsulate even) access to the Company object.