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#623 – Defining One Type Inside Another Type
You can define one type within the scope of another one. This is known as nesting. The inner type can have a different accessibility level than the outer type, so it may or may not be visible from...
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#625 – Reference a Nested Type Using Dot Notation
If a nested type is declared with the proper access modifier, it will be accessible from outside the class that contains it. To use a nested type, you use a dot notation that looks like the following:...
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#627 – Accessibility of Nested Types in a struct or a class
When you define a type within the scope of a class (a nested type), the accessibility of the nested type can be one of the following public protected internal protected internal private (default) When...
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#628 – Why You Might Create a Nested Type
The most common reasons for creating a nested type–one type defined within another one–are: For information hiding purposes, so only the outer type has access to the type being defined As a way of...
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#629 – Nested Types Have Full Access to Members in Parent
When you declare a nested type, the inner type has access to everything in the parent type, even if the items in the parent are declared as private or protected. public class Dog { public string Name {...
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