Inconsistent accessibility: field type 'world' is less accessible than field 'frmSplashScreen

Question

I have this error called Inconsistent accessibility:

field type 'world' is less accessible than field 'frmSplashScreen'

In my code there is a public partial class called frmSplashScreen

There is also a public class called world

The line that caused the error was:

private world currentWorld;

The above line is in the class frmSplashScreen

What is causing the problem?

Can you show more of the actual code? Judging from the error message the `frmSplashScreen` class is not actually public, or not actually a class... — Guffa, Oct 20 '12 at 16:19
Downvoted for not explaining anything and polluting search results — rhavin, Mar 26 '17 at 09:10

score 77 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '13 at 10:27

77

This can also happen when you have not initialized your class "world" as public

you should do :

public class world

Instead of :

class world

answered Nov 07 '13 at 10:27

BasssS

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do this for the class and any base class of it – amr osama Jul 05 '15 at 08:46
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Take into account that any class is "internal" by default in C#. That is the reason you need to specify "public". Great answer, by the way. – toscanelli Oct 09 '17 at 12:32
This resolved my issue, I was busy staring at the fields that I was returning from the method, not taking into cognizance the class that was being returned. – kolexinfos May 25 '18 at 11:12

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '12 at 16:20

25

Generally this happens because your field is private. You must change it to public:

public world currentWorld;

answered Oct 20 '12 at 16:20

Leniel Maccaferri

... you removed your comment, but you got a different error. It's like the first error. You must change `time2Craft` to public. – Leniel Maccaferri Oct 20 '12 at 16:34
Well looks like you have inconsistency throughout your classes' definitions. To help you more I need to see the code and the error messages. – Leniel Maccaferri Oct 20 '12 at 16:38
Wait a long time for what? :) – Leniel Maccaferri Oct 20 '12 at 16:56
for the error to dissapear in the error window in visual studio – user1761786 Oct 20 '12 at 16:58
While this would probably remove the error message, it's more of a hotfix than a real solution - the other answer resolves the main issue. But I understand OP didn't really describe his full situation clearly. – ElDoRado1239 Aug 11 '17 at 14:06
in my case it was the opposite: i had to change from public into private ftw – ulkas May 14 '19 at 06:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 09 '18 at 20:05

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also , I got such an error with public access modifier. The solution was to add {get;set;} getter and setter to properties

answered Feb 09 '18 at 20:05

e0x3

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 25 '18 at 06:01

0

you can't use private access specifier in that statement

    Public class world

will solve this problem

answered Apr 25 '18 at 06:01

manoj

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