Plz also specify the difference between access specifiers and access modifiers in c# so if possible give me reference of msdn also
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[access specifiers = access modifiers](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173121.aspx) and [What are the Default Access Modifiers in C#?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2521459/what-are-the-default-access-modifiers-in-c) – Soner Gönül Aug 29 '14 at 07:03
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5Why not simply search on MSDN if you know it exists? – Dirk Aug 29 '14 at 07:03
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"default access modifier in C#" in Google says it is `private`. Reading the MSDN shows that "Classes and structs that are declared directly within a namespace (in other words, that are not nested within other classes or structs) can be either public or internal. **Internal** is the default if no access modifier is specified." – SimpleVar Aug 29 '14 at 07:04
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The default access modifiers for classes is internal and their constructors is 'private'.
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1"for classes" is not quite right; for top-level classes it is `internal`; for nested classes it is `private`; both are "classes". – Marc Gravell Aug 29 '14 at 07:09
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Have a look @Difference between access specifier and access modifier
In this context, you can think of access specifiers as protection specifiers -- they specify where a variable can be accessed from. By contrast, access modifiers are completely different; they specify how variables should (or should not) be accessed; e.g. read-only, volatile, etc.
i.e., a variable can be public but read-only, or it can be private and writable -- the access specifiers have nothing to do with the modifiers.
However, I'm a little surprised that the terminology is for C#, since Microsoft actually calls public and private "access modifiers", and it calls volatile and readonly just plain "modifiers".
