Protected Friend (Visual Basic)

The Protected Friend keyword combination is a member access modifier. It confers both Friend access and Protected access on the declared elements, so they are accessible from anywhere in the same assembly, from their own class, and from derived classes. You can specify Protected Friend only on members of classes; you cannot apply Protected Friend to members of a structure because structures cannot be inherited.

Note

In Visual Studio, selecting F1 help on Protected Friend provides help for either Protected or Friend. The IDE picks the single token under the cursor rather than the compound word.

See also

• Public
• Protected
• Friend
• Private
• Private Protected
• Access levels in Visual Basic
• Procedures
• Structures
• Objects and Classes