when we should use the "private protected" in C#?

Sanjit Kumar Singh

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Amit Kumar7y ago
Accepted answer
Hi Sanjit,
Private Protected: The member declared with this accessibility can be visible within the types derived from this containing type within the containing assembly. It is not visible to any types not derived from the containing type, or outside of the containing assembly. i.e., the access is limited to derived types within the containing assembly.

For more details:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mazhou/2017/10/05/c-7-series-part-5-private-protected/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/access-modifiers
Mithilesh Kumar7y ago
Private members are only accessible within the class defining them.

Protected members are accessible in the class that defines them and in classes that inherit from that class. So we can use private and protected according to our requirement.