I am writing a class library that contains classes with purely internal members. I have these divided into namespaces. There are no public or protected members in these internal classes.
The thing is, when I use this class library in a client application, these namespaces show up on intellisense. of course, they contain no accessable items, so it just ends, but I am worried that this may confuse users of the library
example:
namespace mynamespace.yournamespace
{
internal class blah
{
internal void function1(){};
internal void function2(){};
}
}
When used externally intellisense will show for: mynamespace.yournamespace but not offer any members (because theyre internal).
The question then, is, is there a way to prevent those internal classes from showing up in intellisense, or am I just worried about nothing? or.....if its internal, does it even need its own namespace?
Any help appreciated
(there is a similar post at: How can I prevent a public class that provides extension methods from appearing in Intellisense? that was inconclusive.)
No, I don't think there is a way.
Based on the error
Error 1 A namespace declaration cannot have modifiers or attributes
I don't see how you could specify that a namespace should be hidden.
The only (?) other way this might have been done is with include/exclude lists in the Intellisense settings but they're not there.