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Access Modifiers

Explore how to control access to class members in C# by using private and public access modifiers. Understand their purpose, usage, and effects on data encapsulation, along with practical coding examples related to vending machine classes.

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In C#, we can impose access restrictions on different data members and member functions. The restrictions are specified through access modifiers. Access modifiers are tags we can associate with each member of the class to define which of its parts can be accessed by the program/application directly.

Types of Access Modifiers

There are the following six types of access modifiers in C#:

  1. private
  2. public
  3. protected
  4. internal
  5. protected internal
  6. private protected

We’ll only discuss private and public for now. The ...