why internal

[bpayne111]

i'm following the example in a book and i have these variables defined

public class User
{
internal Socket _connection; //why is this internal
private Thread _readThread;
private NetworkStream _socketStream;
private BinaryWriter _writer;
private BinaryReader _reader;
}

my question is why is _connection internal instead of private?
i do not notice any other parts of my application using _connection so it would seem private is ok. Does the threading have something to do with this?

thanks
brandon

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

Does this class get used later on in the book, if so this could be planning ahead.
If so variables marked as internal can be accessed by any code in the same assembly (project) but not outside the assembly.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csref/html/vclrfinternalpg.asp

 

[Derek Stone]

It is clearly a very poorly designed class.

 

[bpayne111]

yes derek i think you are right. I took the concept provided and added my oop knowledge to it to create a Server component and now it all made sense.
Thanks
brandon