Inconsistent accessibility: property type __ is less accessible than property ___

Question

I'm creating a database and I need to index the database for all the entries that match a name.

This is where it is being used:

dDatabase.FindAll(findArea.Match);

This is the findArea class:

public class FindArea
{
    string m_Name;
    public FindArea(string name)
    {
        m_Name = name;
    }

    public Predicate<databaseEntry> Match
    {
        get { return NameMatch; }
    }

    private bool NameMatch(databaseEntry deTemp)
    {
        if(deTemp.itemName == m_Name)
        {
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
}

This is the stripped down functionality of the databaseEntry Class:

class databaseEntry
{
    public databaseEntry(int id, int area, string name)
    {
        rfid = id;
        currentArea = area;
        itemName = name;
    }
}

My problem is that when I try to compile this I get

"error CS0053: Inconsistent accessibility: property type 'System.Predicate<Database.databaseEntry>' is less accessible than property Database.FindArea.Match"

in the Predicate<databaseEntry> Match function.

UPDATE

So Thanks for all the help, I needed to set the access of the databaseEntry class to public,

i.e.

public class databaseEntry

or I could have changed the:

public class FindArea

to:

class FindArea

and leave the databaseEntry alone

This happened due to mixing different accessibility for the two classes

Answer 1

Your issue is that your databaseEntry class isn't public and hence for the predicate based on databaseEntry class to be public, you need to also make the databaseEntry class public.