[2005] Need scope help.

[jmcilhinney]

Like I said, just because you can only get an instance initially through some other class is no reason to restrict access to the type itself. If the user wants to access multiple members of an instance they shouldn't have to access them all via some property, e.g.

Dim ut As New UnrestrictedType
 
ut.RestrictedType.Property1 = value1
ut.RestrictedType.Property2 = value2

They should be able to assign the value of the property to a local variable and then access its properties directly, e.g.

Dim ut As New UnrestrictedType
Dim rt As RestrictedType = ut.RestrictedType
 
rt.Property1 = value1
rt.Property2 = value2

To prevent that would be poor form and I doubt that it's even possible.