WCF service, how to hide internal methods?

Question

Hi,

In my WCF service, I have methods that are currently public, but I want to hide them from the outside world but be able to use them in my WCF service.

Is internal what I'm looking at?

Answer 1

yes internal will limit access to the current assembly

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ba0a1yw2.aspx

Answer 2

All you have to do to not have the outside world ( WCF clients) know of them is to not mark them with [ServiceContract] attribute, then it doesn't matter if they are public

if you distribute the DLL with the WCF service in it you can mark the methods:

• private (can only be called from within the same class)
• protected (same as private + a class inheriting from it)
• internal (same as private + all other classes in the same assembly + any classes in assemblies which has been named in InternalsVisibleTo (google it)