Question

I want a method of the class: ‘One‘ (‘AccessibleWithinSameNamespace‘) to be accessible by the class: ‘Two‘, without having ‘Two‘ extending ‘One‘.

Both classes are in the same namespace, so I’m thinking that maybe there’s an access-modifier that emulates the ‘protected‘ modifyer, but for namespaces.

Some code:

namespace Test {     class One     {         public void AccessibleToAll()         {         }           protected void AccessibleWithinSameNamespace()         {             // I am not public              // I can be accessed from other classes             // within the same namespace of my class         }     } }  namespace Test {     class Two     {         public Two()         {             One one = new One();              // I am able to access this method because my class             // is in the same namespace as the class: 'One'             one.AccessibleWithinSameNamespace();         }     } } 

Answer 1

You can use the internal modifier if both classes are in the same assembly.

With your example:

namespace Test {     class One     {         public void AccessibleToAll()         {         }           internal void AccessibleWithinSameNamespace()         {             // I am not public              // I can be accessed from other classes             // within the same namespace of my class         }     } }  namespace Test {     class Two     {         public Two()         {             One one = new One();              // I am able to access this method because my class             // is in the same namespace as the class: 'One'             one.AccessibleWithinSameNamespace();         }     } }