Access Modifiers

Access specifiers or Access modifiers are keywords  which are restricting access level or accessibility of a class or class members.

• Public
• Private
• Protected
• Internal
• Protected Internal

Public:

When we declare a class or class member as public, then these class or class members can be accessed by all the classes and all the project members.

Private:          

When we declare a class or class member as private, which can be accessed by only current class members, which cannot be accessed by other class members.

Protected:

When ever we declare a class or class member as protected, which can be accessed by current class and derived class members.

Internal:

When we declare a class or class member as internal, which can be accessed by all the cases with in the project.

Protected Internal:

When we declare a class or class member as protected internal, which can be accessed by all the cases with in the project and derived classes from this project.