How to access a C# internal property from VB.NET project in same solution?

Question

My Visual Studio 2008 solution contains both C# and VB.NET projects. From a VB.NET project, how can I access a C# property with its access modifier set to "internal"?

Answer 1

You need to make the assembly's friends with the InternalsVisibleTo attribute.

Assuming that you don't sign your assemblies, it's as easy as adding an assembly level InternalsVisibleTo attribute to the C# project with the name of the VB.Net assembly. Typically you do this in AssemblyInfo.cs (under the Properties folder)

[assembly:InternalsVisibleTo("MyVbAssemblyName")]