Inconsistent accessibility: field type is less accessible than field

Question

I've finally started implementing Linq in our old API so I started making all the classes associated with our Tables and DB classes for the Database I followed an online guid but I can't get it working. I have the following code for my Company.cs:

using RAW_API.Models;
using System.Data.Linq;
using System.Data.Linq.Mapping;

namespace RAW_API.DataContexts {
    [Database]
    public class Company : DataContext {
        public Table<NewsItems> news_items;
        public Company( string connection ) : base( connection ) { }
    }
}

And for my NewsItems.cs class file:

using System;
using System.Data.Linq.Mapping;

namespace RAW_API.Models {
    [Table( Name = "news_items" )]
    public class NewsItems {
        [Column( IsPrimaryKey = true, IsDbGenerated = true )]
        public int id { get; set; }
        [Column]
        public string titleNL { get; set; }
        [Column]
        ...
    }
}

all classes and fields are public but it still throws the following error:

Error CS0052: Inconsistent accessibility: field type 'Table' is less accessible than field 'Company.news_items' ApplicationServerWrapper K:\Group\repo_groclaes_rawapi\ApplicationServerWrapper\DataContexts\Company.cs:8

It seems like your `Table` type is not `public`, as your class `NewsItems`. As @rene said, what is your type `Table` and how is it defined? With what access modifier? — benichka, Sep 26 '17 at 07:17
@rene It's the included class from linq, that's what confuses me. 'class System.Data.Linq.Table where TEntity : class' — Jamie Vangeysel, Sep 26 '17 at 07:23

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '17 at 07:16

8

Inconsistent accessibility error means that Table class (i.e. Table<T>) may declared & initialized as private, set it to public so that it has same accessibility level as news_items.

Hence, if you have Table class somewhere like this:

// T is the table class name
class Table<T>
{
    // other stuff
}

You need to set it as public level as required by news_items field:

public class Table<T>
{
    // other stuff
}

Reference:

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

answered Sep 26 '17 at 07:16

Tetsuya Yamamoto

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@Icepickle I thought so too, but the error should show `TableAttribute` instead if that was the case. – Manfred Radlwimmer Sep 26 '17 at 07:19
`TableAttribute` is different from `Table` in your case... `TableAttribute` is not generic & must be used with `[Table("TableName")]` instead of declared as type. – Tetsuya Yamamoto Sep 26 '17 at 07:22
If I do that I get this error: Error CS1729 'TableAttribute' does not contain a constructor that takes 1 arguments NewsAPI K:\Group\repo_groclaes_rawapi\NewsAPI\Models\NewsItems.cs 5 Active – Jamie Vangeysel Sep 26 '17 at 07:27

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '20 at 12:48

Here from MS DOCs

Compiler Error CS0052
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/compiler-messages/cs0052

// CS0052.cs
public class MyClass2
{
   // The following line causes an error because the field, M, is declared
   // as public, but the type, MyClass, is private. Therefore the type is
   // less accessible than the field.
public MyClass M;   // CS0052

private class MyClass
{
}
   // One way to resolve the error is to change the accessibility of the type
   // to public. 
   //public class MyClass
   // Another solution is to change the accessibility of the field to private.
   //  private MyClass M; 
}

public class MainClass
{
    public static void Main()
    {
    }
}

Inconsistent accessibility: field type is less accessible than field

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