CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Vencovsky
Vencovsky

Reputation: 31625

'Inconsistent accessibility' error when exposing a public property of a nested private type

I'm trying to do something and I came across an error that I cannot understand why.

public static class XYZ
{
    private class Foo : SomethingIWantToInheritFrom
    {
        public Foo()
        {

        }
    }

    public static Foo Bar = new Foo();
}

This is giving me the following error related to the Bar property:

Inconsistent accessibility: field type 'XYZ.Foo' is less accessible than field 'XYZ.Bar'

Why does this error happen?

Am I not allowed to create a static property that has the same type of a class inside my static class?

Edit: Bar needs to be public so I can access it like Foo.Bar. What I don't want is for other code to have access to the Foo class.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 113

Answers (1)

Jonas Høgh
Jonas Høgh

Reputation: 10874

What you're trying to do makes no sense. You want your callers to be able to call XYZ.Bar, but they don't get to know the type of the object they get back.

You could change the type of the Bar property to SomethingIWantToInheritFrom, if that is a public type.

Upvotes: 5

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