The IsFamily property of the MemberDescription class indicates whether the member is accessible within its own class and by derived class instances. This property returns a boolean value, where true signifies that the member has family-level access, also known as protected access in C#.
Use the IsFamily property to determine if a member of a class is accessible only within its own class and by derived classes. This can be useful when reflecting over a type's members to filter out those that are not accessible to derived classes.
// Example of using the IsFamily property
// Assume 'memberDescription' is an instance of MemberDescription
bool isFamilyAccessible = memberDescription.IsFamily;
if (isFamilyAccessible)
{
// Perform actions knowing the member is protected
Console.WriteLine("The member is accessible to derived classes.");
}
else
{
// Handle the case where the member is not protected
Console.WriteLine("The member is not accessible to derived classes.");
}