http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2008/05/02/protected-member-access-part-four.aspxIn Part Two I asked a couple of follow-up questions, the first of which was: Suppose you were a hostile third party and you wanted to mess up the parenting invariant. Clearly, if you are sufficiently trusted, you can always use private reflection or unsafeen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2008/05/02/protected-member-access-part-four.aspx#8533402Thu, 22 May 2008 22:23:30 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8533402Charlie Calvert's Community Blog<p>Rather than place the links to the most recent C# team content directly in Community Convergence , I</p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8533402" width="1" height="1">