accessor must be more restrictive than the property or indexer

Question

I have the folowing class:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.Odbc;

namespace Framework         


        

Answer 1

Well, the error tells all the information required:

accessibility modifier ... accessor must be more restrictive than the property ...

  private OdbcConnection db { // <- property as whole is "private"
    get; 
    private set; // <- accessor (set) is explictly declared as "private" 
  }

So you can do either

  // property as a whole is "public", but "set" accessor is "private"
  // and so the accessor is more restrictive than the property
  public OdbcConnection db { // <- property as whole is "public"
    get; 
    private set; // <- accessor is "private" (more restrictive than "public")
  }

Or

  private OdbcConnection db { 
    get; 
    set; // <- just don't declare accessor modifier
  }