C# – Member is inaccessible due to its protection level error

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How to connect string from my class to form

im trying to do solutions related to their answers (specifically answer of sir Jeremy) but this error keeps on appearing

'KeyWord.KeyWord.keywords' is inaccessible due to its protection level

code for KeyWords.cs:

namespace KeyWord
{
    public class KeyWord
    {
        String[] keywords = { "abstract", "as", "etc." };

    }
}

code for main.cs

// Check whether the token is a keyword. 
var keyboardCls = new KeyWord.KeyWord();
String[] keywords = keyboardCls.keywords;

for (int i = 0; i < keywords.Length; i++)
{
    if (keywords[i] == token)
    {
        // Apply alternative color and font to highlight keyword.        
        rtb.SelectionColor = Color.Blue;
        rtb.SelectionFont = new Font("Courier New", 10, FontStyle.Bold);
        break;
    }
}

what should i do?

Best Answer

You need to define keywords as public

public String[] keywords = { "abstract", "as", "etc." };

Currently it is private and that is why not accessible outside the class.

Access Modifiers (C# Programming Guide)

Class members, including nested classes and structs, can be public, protected internal, protected, internal, or private. The access level for class members and struct members, including nested classes and structs, is private by default.

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C# – inaccessible due to its protection level

Well, what is the protection level of ResourcePolicyAvailSystemsLVI.m_nullString ? And where is your code in relation? It will be inaccessible if, for example

it is private and you're in an unrelated class
it is protected and you're not in a subclass
it is internal and you're in a different assembly without [InternalsVisibleTo]
it is protected internal and both of the two above apply

To be honest, it looks like a field, and fields generally aren't public - so it wouldn't amaze me if somebody has changed the accessibility, perhaps adding a public static property to wrap it - or simply changed the name (although that would give a different error). Try looking for ResourcePolicyAvailSystemsLVI.NullString or similar (in intellisense / object-browser).

Re your comment; you have:

private static string m_nullString =
    Managers.ControlStrings.GetString("ManagedDeviceWizard.None");

so just add:

public static string NullString {get {return m_nullString;}}

and change your calling code to use ResourcePolicyAvailSystemsLVI.NullString.

C# – is inaccessible due to its protection level

In your base class Clubs the following are declared protected

club;
distance;
cleanclub;
scores;
par;
hole;

which means these can only be accessed by the class itself or any class which derives from Clubs.

In your main code, you try to access these outside of the class itself. eg:

Console.WriteLine("How far to the hole?");
myClub.distance = Console.ReadLine();

You have (somewhat correctly) provided public accessors to these variables. eg:

public string mydistance
{
    get
    {
        return distance;
    }
    set
    {
        distance = value;
    }
}

which means your main code could be changed to

Console.WriteLine("How far to the hole?");
myClub.mydistance = Console.ReadLine();

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