What is the difference between public static void Main() and private static void Main() in a C# console application?

Question

What is the difference between

public static void Main()

and

private static void Main()

in a C# console appli

Answer 1

The private or public statement is it's access modifier, a private access modifier makes it inaccessible to external objects where a public access modifier makes it accessible to external objects. example usage:

Say we have a class:

class myClass{
    public void test(){
        //do something
    }
}

We create an instance of that class:

myClass mClass=new myClass();

To access it's member function you would go:

mClass.test();

If it had a private access modifier, you'd get a compile error saying it's inaccessible.

And just for knowledge's sake, to access a member without creating an instance of a class, you'd also make that member static, eg:

class myClass{
    public static void test(){
        //do something
    }
}

So to access it now, you'd just simply do:

myClass.test();

(Note that any members accessed in a static member should also be static)