Question Why can I access a class scoped as INTERNAL from another assembly?

Neal

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Hello,

I'm not sure if this is a Mono bug (MonoTouch 4.0.0 with MonoDevelop 2.4.2) but I have a class library and in that class library I have a class named "Logger" which is used to write error data to a file. I have this class scoped as INTERNAL. From my main app I have the using statement to import this class library's namespace. Why is it that I can use this Logger class from the main project if this class is marked as INTERNAL?

I have a Logger class within the main project itself which is a little different. The one in the class library is to be used only by that library so I scoped it as INTERNAL. Come to find out when I was making "Logger.LogException" calls it was using the INTERNAL one.

Anyone have any thoughts? I thought INTERNAL was the same as FRIEND in VB?

Thx
 
It is the same, internal access is within assembly. Though it is possible to apply InternalsVisibleToAttribute to make friend assemblies. Reflection can also access it.
 
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