Re: private fields of component show up in debugger

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Hi Hairlip,

I think Pete's explanation is reasonable. For the accessor of class(such as
private, protected, public), they will restrict the accessibility of class
members in program(from other classes in same assembly or from other
assemblies). However, debugger is not restricted by these accessors. The
debugging tools will directly inspect the runtime program's memory to get
the execution data structure and contents of the application being debuged.
And as long as the program (being debuged) provide the necessary metadata
and symbols, the debugging tools can inspect into each data
member/variables in the program. Here when you debugging the console
application(and also the referenced class library assembly), the VS IDE can
get the symbols, so all the variables is available in debugger.

here are some information about symbols and debugging:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/debugstart.mspx

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/symbols.asp

Anyway, if what you worry about is only the debugger, you can think it
completely different from the container application since whether container
application can see the referenced class library assembly's internal data
or not is determined at compile/build time(according to the member accessor
).

If you still have any question on this, please feel free to post here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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