Does C# have the notion of private and protected inheritance?

Question

Does C# have the notion of private / protected inheritance, and if not, why?

C++

class Foo : private Bar {
 public:
   ...
 }; 
         


        

Answer 1

You can hide inherited APIs from being publicly visible by declaring that same member in your class as private, and using the new keyword. See Hiding through Inheritance from MSDN.