make sure object only created by factory (C#)

Question

How do I make sure that a certain class is only instantiated by a factory and not by calling new directly?

EDIT: I need the factory

Answer 1

Many people have mentioned using internal, but you can also make your constructors protected and derive a class that just has the static factory method in it. This doesn't prevent others from doing the same thing, but does a pretty good job at restricting direct access to your constructors.