| title | Modifiers (C# Reference) | ||
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| ms.date | 07/20/2015 | ||
| ms.prod | .net | ||
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| ms.topic | article | ||
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| ms.assetid | c96691dd-b357-49ec-b5ae-03ca214fadfb | ||
| caps.latest.revision | 18 | ||
| author | BillWagner | ||
| ms.author | wiwagn |
Modifiers are used to modify declarations of types and type members. This section introduces the C# modifiers.
| Modifier | Purpose |
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| Access Modifiers - public - private - internal - protected |
Specifies the declared accessibility of types and type members. |
| abstract | Indicates that a class is intended only to be a base class of other classes. |
| async | Indicates that the modified method, lambda expression, or anonymous method is asynchronous. |
| const | Specifies that the value of the field or the local variable cannot be modified. |
| event | Declares an event. |
| extern | Indicates that the method is implemented externally. |
| new | Explicitly hides a member inherited from a base class. |
| override | Provides a new implementation of a virtual member inherited from a base class. |
| partial | Defines partial classes, structs and methods throughout the same assembly. |
| readonly | Declares a field that can only be assigned values as part of the declaration or in a constructor in the same class. |
| sealed | Specifies that a class cannot be inherited. |
| static | Declares a member that belongs to the type itself instead of to a specific object. |
| unsafe | Declares an unsafe context. |
| virtual | Declares a method or an accessor whose implementation can be changed by an overriding member in a derived class. |
| volatile | Indicates that a field can be modified in the program by something such as the operating system, the hardware, or a concurrently executing thread. |