Friends in VB.NET vs C++

[Dave Cousineau]

in c++ i could declare classA a friend of classB, and this
would allow classA to access anything in classB
can i do this in VB?
i notice that the friends keyword functions more like the
old Global keyword

 

[Dave Cousineau]

yeah ok
that is close then, but i dont want _everything_ to be
able to access the data, just one particular class

i have a class and a form object/class
the form is intended to fill out the information required
for an instance of the class
it would be nice if i could give the form access to the
classes data members, since it has a special relationship
with the class

 

[Robert Jacobson]

I believe that you need to use nested classes for this. E.g.,

Public Class ParentClass
...

Private Class ChildClass
...
End Class

End Class

That way, ChildClass can only be accessed from ParentClass.

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