Top "Access-modifiers" questions

"protected" methods in C#?

What are the benefits to defining methods as protected in C#? like : protected void KeyDemo_KeyPress( object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e ) { // …

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What is the difference between static, internal and public constructors?

What is the difference between static, internal and public constructors? Why do we need to create all of them together? …

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Modifier Keyword order in Java

Every time I write method in Java with more keywords than public void, every time I write it another way. …

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Why can't we change access modifier while overriding methods in C#?

In C#, we can not change access modifier while overriding a method from base class. e.g. Class Base { **protected** …

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Internal abstract class: how to hide usage outside assembly?

I have a common assembly/project that has an abstract base class, then several derived classes that I want to …

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protected/public Inner Classes

Can someone please explain to me what is the difference between protected / public Inner classes? I know that public inner …

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Change the access modifier of an overridden method in Java?

Is there a reason one can change the access modifier of an overridden method? For instance, abstract class Foo{ void …

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Why can't a class or an interface receive private or protected access modifiers?

I am reading some Java text and the text says that we can only apply public or default access modifier …

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Protected access modifier in Java

I am having a little trouble understanding the protected access modifier in java (or the design behind it). I thought …

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Spring @Autowired fields - which access modifier, private or package-private?

Let's say that we use the @Autowired annotation over various fields in a class, and that we didn't write setters …

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