Forbid public Add and Delete for a List

Question

in my C#-project, I have a class which contains a List

public class MyClass
{
  public MyClass parent;
  public List children;
  ...
}
         


        

Answer 1

Use List(T).AsReadOnly().

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e78dcd75.aspx

Returns a read-only IList<(Of <(T>)>) wrapper for the current collection.

Available since .NET 2.0.