In C# 4.0, is there any way to make an otherwise private member of one class available only to a specific other class?

Question

We\'re creating an object hierarchy where each item has a collection of other items, and each item also has a Parent property pointing to its parent item. Pretty st

Answer 1

My answer is built off of two parts

1. Why is it so "Unsafe" to have the Interface ISetParent?

private/internal access modifiers are ment to prevent from mistakes, not really "Secure Code".

Remember... you can call private methods using some Reflections/Invoke Etc...

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2 . i usually make everything public and make sure both sides know how to handle each other,

ofcourse, there is a little ping-pong but it takes just few cycles (in this case i have a NamedSet)

    private IPhysicalObject partOf;
    public IPhysicalObject PartOf
    {
        get { return partOf; }
        set
        {
            if (partOf != value)
            {
                if (partOf != null)
                    partOf.Children.Remove(this.Designation);

                partOf = value;

                if (partOf != null)
                    partOf.Children.Add(this.Designation);
            }
        }
    }

    public virtual void Add(String key, IPhysicalObject value)
    {
        IPhysicalObject o;
        if (!TryGetValue(key, out o))
        {
            innerDictionary.Add(key, value);
            value.PartOf = Parent;
        }
    }

    public virtual bool Remove(String key)
    {
        IPhysicalObject o;
        if(TryGetValue(key, out o))
        {
            innerDictionary.Remove(key);
            o.PartOf = null;
        }
    }

Hope this helps... Good Day, Tomer W.

P.S. I'll never get how this Editor is working... should i HTML it, or should i not?