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An attribute in .NET to expose members marked as internal to selected assemblies.

In .NET, members with the access modifier 'internal' are only visible to classes inside the current assembly. This can be circumvented by adding the InternalsVisibleTo attribute to the AssemblyInfo file.

This way, the assembly with the internal members can control which other assemblies have access to these members.

Both assemblies must be unsigned or both must be signed. If both are signed, the full public key must be included in the constructor of the attribute.

An unsigned assembly can expose the internal members to another unsigned assembly with (C# and VB.NET):

[assembly:InternalsVisibleTo("AnUnsignedAssembly")]
<Assembly:InternalsVisibleTo("AnUnsignedAssembly")>

For a signed assembly to expose the internal members to another signed assembly, the following can be used (C# and VB.NET):

[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("SignedAssembly, PublicKey=002400000480000094" + 
                          "0000000602000000240000525341310004000" +
                          "001000100bf8c25fcd44838d87e245ab35bf7" +
                          "3ba2615707feea295709559b3de903fb95a93" +
                          "3d2729967c3184a97d7b84c7547cd87e435b5" +
                          "6bdf8621bcb62b59c00c88bd83aa62c4fcdd4" +
                          "712da72eec2533dc00f8529c3a0bbb4103282" +
                          "f0d894d5f34e9f0103c473dce9f4b457a5dee" +
                          "fd8f920d8681ed6dfcb0a81e96bd9b176525a" +
                          "26e0b3")]
<Assembly:InternalsVisibleTo("SignedAssembly, PublicKey=002400000480000094" + _
                         "0000000602000000240000525341310004000" + _
                         "001000100bf8c25fcd44838d87e245ab35bf7" + _
                         "3ba2615707feea295709559b3de903fb95a93" + _
                         "3d2729967c3184a97d7b84c7547cd87e435b5" + _
                         "6bdf8621bcb62b59c00c88bd83aa62c4fcdd4" + _
                         "712da72eec2533dc00f8529c3a0bbb4103282" + _
                         "f0d894d5f34e9f0103c473dce9f4b457a5dee" + _
                         "fd8f920d8681ed6dfcb0a81e96bd9b176525a" + _
                         "26e0b3")>
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How to have "public public" v/s "internal public"?

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SGEN, InternalsVisibleTo and assembly signing

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Non-code-generated forwarding shim for testing private methods

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Alternative to InternalsVisibleTo

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.NET's "InternalsVisibleTo" equivalent in Haskell

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Dependency injection and InternalsVisibleTo attribute

In my solution I have an IoC container (Ninject) in its own module. It works fine to resolve dependencies between public classes of all modules, but how could it resolve dependencies of internal classes? I have a public class called Customer, in the…
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Microsoft Fakes Internal Classes Shim not generated

I have Windows Form App(assembly named "WindowsFormsApplication1") and I have Unit Test project(assembly named "UnitTestProject2"). I added InternalsVisibleTo attribute into "WindowsFormsApplication1\AssemblyInfo.cs" like [assembly:…
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referencing and storing the strong name externally for reuse

I have a lot of assemblies that have set the InternalsVisibleToAttribute pointing one specifc assembly within the same solution. Unfortunately the assembly that is being pointed to has a stong name, so I always have to put the same public key token…
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InternalsVisibleTo - not working in ascx/aspx file

I set the InternalsVisibleTo attribute for the friend assembly. In a controller, I can access the internal class, but if I try to do the same in the aspx/ascx file - "class is inaccessible due to its protection level" . Any way I could fix this…
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Setting Assembly Info for InternalsVisibleTo with MSBuild Community Tasks

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Sgen throws an error with internal setter in VS2012

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Can't get the full public key for 4.0 beta 2 assemblies

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Wcf Friend Assemblies on iis, not working at runtime

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Unit testing with InternalsVisibleTo does not work for internal methods using dynamic parameters

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