Why cant partial methods be public if the implementation is in the same assembly?
.net, c#, partial-classes
Solution
Because the MS compiler team did not have a requirement to implement this feature.
Here is a possible scenario of what happen inside MS, because VS uses code gen for a lot of its features, one day a MS code gen developer decided that he/she needed to have partial methods so that the code generated api could be extended by outsiders, and this requirement led the compiler team to act and deliver.
Problem
According to MSDN Documentation for partial classes : Partial methods are implicitly private So you can have this ``` // Definition in file1.cs partial void Method1(); // Implementation in file2.cs partial void Method1() { // method body } ``` But you can't have this ``` // Definition in file1.cs public partial void Method1(); // Implementation in file2.cs public partial void Method1() { // method body } ``` But why is this? Is there some reason the compiler can't handle public partial methods?