New Access Specifier in C sharp 7.2

In C# 7.2 a private protected has been added. So they are total 6 access specifier

 
From C Sharp 7.2.

•         public
•         protected
•         internal
•         private
•         protected internal
•         private protected

  To know about previous access specifier please go through this.


Private Protected: It really means protected AND internal.

 

From the above Example you can see that it gives Me Error. Reason is

 

 

To Fix this,

In Visual Studio 2017 first, we need to change the Language Type to C Sharp 7.2 as shown below

Goto Project File-> Right Click and Select Properties.

 

Click on Advanced Buttonà And the Change the settings to C sharp 7.2

 

That is - member is accessible only to child classes which are in the same assembly, but not to child classes which are outside assembly.

 

Now let me try to access this From the Outside Assembly.

1) private protected member is inaccessible outside the assembly for the child class.

 

2) private protected member is inaccessible inside the assembly for non-inherited class.

 

Error: