Question What is an "internal object"?

While messing about in c#, Visual studio auto-suggested this:

internal object thing;

I know what the internal part means, but I can't find any reference to what the object means. Any ideas?

 

Without more context I can't be certain exactly what you're talking about.

But from what context you've given I'm assuming it suggested a field/variable declaration and that declaration is something like:

Code (csharp):

1. class SomeCodeContext
2. {
3.     internal object thing;
4. }

internal - you said you already know what that means, but I'll link anyways:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/internal

object - C# shorthand for System.Object, the type from which all types inherit and thusly can be cast as (value types get boxed of course):
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.object?view=net-7.0

thing - name of the field/variable.

So you just declared a field/variable named 'thing' of type 'System.Object' that is accessible with the access modifier internal.

As to why VS auto-suggested it? :shrug: I would need more context.

 

Great you mention it here because many seems to get this wrong. C# has "alias names" for certain CLR types and "object" is one of them. Other more common ones are

int

(System.Int32),

string

(System.String),

long

(System.Int64),

float

(System.Single) and

double

(System.Double) which are also just alias names of the language for convenience. Technically you actually use the types from the System namespace.