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There was an interesting question stackoverflow today.

Why are my classes Private by default in Visual Studio .net?

Here is why

By default a class without an access specifier is internal and a member defaults to private. This it keeps the visibility as restricted as possible and thereby increases encapsulation.

Making a new class public without even thinking about breaks the entire idea of encapsulation.

The class template that VS uses to create a new class can be found in this zip file (in case of CSharp):

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\1033\Class.zip or C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Code\1033 when using VS Orcas

Open the zip file, add the public keyword, save it and you’re done. Every time you add a class it will be public.

Check out the question here.

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