how to restrict setting a property of innerclass just from the outer class in c#

Question

I have the nub of the code like this:

public class OuterClass
{
    public static InnerClass GetInnerClass()
    {
        return new InnerClass() { MyProperty = 1 };
    }

    public class InnerClass
    {
        public int MyProperty { get; set; }
    }
}

what is the solution to property named MyProperty just be settable from the InnerClass and the OuterClass, and out of these scopes, MyProperty just be readonly

Answer 1

There is no protection level for that. internal is the tightest you can use, which is limited to files in the same assembly. If you cannot make it a constructor parameter as has been proposed, you could use an interface:

public class OuterClass
{
    public static InnerClass GetInnerClass()
    {
        return new InnerClassImpl() { MyProperty = 1 };
    }

    public interface InnerClass
    {
        int MyProperty { get; }
    }
    private class InnerClassImpl : InnerClass
    {
        public int MyProperty { get; set; }
    }
}