Question Supress Private Variables in .NET Classes

[Element6]

Does anyone know how to supress the private variables from showing in the .NET Namespace?

I have a Class that looks similar to this.

[B]Public Class SomeClassA

   Private propA as string

   Public Property SOMEPROP() as String
   Get
      return propA
   End Get
   Set(value as string)
       propA = value
   End Set
   End Property

End Class[/B]

When I use the class in a programing environment the "propA" Value appears in the namespace when I hit SomeClassA"." .

Does anyone know how to supress this or is there a different technique to use that hides the reference that I don't know about?

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I noticed that when I first moved to VS 2008. Back in VS 2003 and 2005 it would only list the members you have access to, whereas VS 2008 shows everything. I haven't tried assigning something to the one I know is a private var outside of that class, it should give a compile error.

 

[newguy]

When you make an instance of that class you will not see it in Intellisense.

Dim s As New SomeClassA
s.propA '<- will never show up where 
s.SOMEPROP 'will, and you would set the propA by setting this

 

[Element6]

Ok good, because I was getting annoyed with all my private declares poping up in the intellisense, and would hate to see my Framework reflect all the hardwork I put in for security by showing it when I distribute and nullify what I have done.

Is there no option to "turn off" this feature in Development Environment maybe?

If I have a complex derived class that has, lets say 10 properties Public and 10 Private for swap ajustment or persistance accumulative from 2 or 3 bases classes; it lists all 20 and that is very cumbersome when routeing through and especially when I am trying to remember which Classes the origional Properties/Methods/Events are located in; which is my fault really, I tend not to use the PARTIAL Classes method of solving that problem and like to view the universe from a logical view not a Business view (which I know would solve my organization problems).

I was hoping Microsoft would have been a little smarter with this and added a dataset style intellisense which shows the property infromation, such as PROPERTY | DATATYPE | LOCATION (BASE CLASS) or perhaps a way of Turning on and off descriptors and information as needed to "personalize" the Development Environment.

I do like intellisense a lot though very smart and it is very useful.

Thanks again appreciate the help.

 

[DavidWadsworth]

Reflection

Mate,

All private variables, members etc can be read using reflection so turning them off in intellisense only gives a false sense of security. Its surely better knowing that they are not private and coding securely.

 

[Element6]

So if I wanted to peer into the Microsoft Framework I can just use Reflection to do Gettype information?

Well, that seems to defeat the whole purpose of Private.

Senior Developers - Would you suggest that instead of using private declaration I just make a persistant array class and uses some sort of property Indexing to be able to view the information? It's encumbered; but I don't want to lose security and I need to add some levels to the model; problem is more code = slower output and hackers exists so I need to rethink this. Maybe .NET isn't the right framework to be using.

I think .NET needs to add new technique styles so that people can get around these issues easily.