C# Protected Internal Access Specifiers

The protected internal access specifier allows its members to be accessed in derived class, containing class or classes within same application. However, this access specifier rarely used in C# programming but it becomes important while implementing inheritance.

 Example:

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using System;

namespace Protected_Internal
{
  class access
   {
     // String Variable declared as protected internal
     protected internal string name;
     public void print()
      {
        Console.WriteLine("\nMy name is " + name);
      }
   }


  class Program
   {
     static void Main(string[] args)
      {
        access ac = new access();
        Console.Write("Enter your name:\t");
        // Accepting value in protected internal variable
        ac.name = Console.ReadLine();
        ac.print();
        Console.ReadLine();
      }
   }
}

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Output

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Enter your name:     Aav Kumar

My name is Aav Kumar

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