Access to internal classes from another project

Question

I\'m wondering if it\'s possible to access internal class variables from other project in c#. I know that is impossible in regular use, I explain it below.

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Answer 1

You can use the InternalsVisibleTo attribute and provide the name of a specific assembly that can see the internal types in your assembly.

That being said.. I think you are bordering on over-designing this. If the Settings class belongs only to Assembly A... don't put it in Assembly B... put it in Assembly A.

Answer 2

That is the point of internal modifier - to not allow this. Either change it to public or use some kind of proxy class to expose the functionality you need to the outer world.

Answer 3

I think this is what you are looking for:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.compilerservices.internalsvisibletoattribute.aspx

Answer 4

Yes it is, using InternalsVisibleTo, but I would only recommend doing this for Unit Test projects.

Otherwise, you should extract a common interface, make it public and put it in a separate assembly that can be references by both projects.

You could make all the properties of the interface read-only so that the consumer cannot change them.