MethodBase.IsFamily Property
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Gets a value that indicates whether the visibility of this method or constructor is described by MethodAttributes.Family; that is, the method or constructor is visible only within its class and derived classes.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Booleantrue if access to this method or constructor is exactly described by MethodAttributes.Family; otherwise, false.
The visibility of a method or constructor is exactly described by MethodAttributes.Family if the only visibility modifier is protected. This property is false for methods that are protected internal in C# (Protected Friend in Visual Basic, protected public in C++); use the IsFamilyOrAssembly property to identify such methods.
The following example defines methods with varying levels of visibility, and displays the values of their IsAssembly, IsFamily, IsFamilyOrAssembly, and IsFamilyAndAssembly properties.
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The Visual Basic and C# languages cannot define methods with MethodAttributes.FamANDAssem visibility. |
To run this example, see Building examples that have static TextBlock controls for Windows Phone 8.
Imports System.Reflection Public Class Example Public Sub m_Public() End Sub Friend Sub m_Friend() End Sub Protected Sub m_Protected() End Sub Protected Friend Sub m_Protected_Friend() End Sub Public Shared Sub Demo(ByVal outputBlock As System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock) outputBlock.FontFamily = New FontFamily("Courier New") outputBlock.Text &= String.Format(vbCrLf & _ "{0,-30}{1,-18}{2}", "", "IsAssembly", "IsFamilyOrAssembly") & vbCrLf outputBlock.Text &= String.Format("{0,-21}{1,-18}{2,-18}{3}" & vbCrLf, _ "", "IsPublic", "IsFamily", "IsFamilyAndAssembly") & vbCrLf For Each m As MethodBase In GetType(Example).GetMethods( _ BindingFlags.Instance Or BindingFlags.NonPublic Or BindingFlags.Public) If Left(m.Name, 1) = "m" Then outputBlock.Text &= String.Format("{0,-21}{1,-9}{2,-9}{3,-9}{4,-9}{5,-9}", _ m.Name, _ m.IsPublic, _ m.IsAssembly, _ m.IsFamily, _ m.IsFamilyOrAssembly, _ m.IsFamilyAndAssembly _ ) & vbCrLf End If Next End Sub End Class ' This code example produces output similar to the following: ' ' IsAssembly IsFamilyOrAssembly ' IsPublic IsFamily IsFamilyAndAssembly ' 'm_Public True False False False False 'm_Friend False True False False False 'm_Protected False False True False False 'm_Protected_Friend False False False True False
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