In WPF, how do I make my controls inside a usercontrol private?

Question

I have a user control with a ComboBox and a TextBox. Everything is working great except I noticed that from my user control's instance object, I can access those two controls. They shouldn't be accessible except via my own exposed properties.

Answer 1

You can use the x:FieldModifier attribute on your controls, thusly:

<TextBox x:Name="textBox1" x:FieldModifier="private" />

Interestingly the MSDN page for x:FieldModifier doesn't give "private" as a valid value for the attribute, but I've tested it and it works.