What is encapsulation?

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Kaushik Dudhat · Answer

Encapsulation is the concept of wrapping data into a single unit. It collects data members and member functions into a single unit called class. Example: class Account { private int account_number; private int account_balance; public void show Data() { //code to show data } public void deposit( int a) { if (a //show error } else account_balance = account_balance + a; } }

Jaish Mathews · Answer

Besides keeping data as a single unit, Encapsulation protects data using Access Modifiers.i.e. Hiding Type Members with Private Access and also exposing needed Type Members with Public Access, though C# has many other types of Access Modifiers. Please refer https://csharp-station.com/Tutorial/CSharp/Lesson19 for details

Amit Mohanty · Answer

In normal terms Encapsulation is defined as wrapping up of data and information under a single unit. In Object Oriented Programming, Encapsulation is defined as binding together the data and the functions that manipulates them. Consider a real life example of encapsulation, in a company there are different sections like the accounts section, finance section, sales section etc. The finance section handles all the financial transactions and keep records of all the data related to finance. Similarly the sales section handles all the sales related activities and keep records of all the sales. Now there may arise a situation when for some reason an official from finance section needs all the data about sales in a particular month. In this case, he is not allowed to directly access the data of sales section. He will first have to contact some other officer in the sales section and then request him to give the particular data. This is what encapsulation is. Here the data of sales section and the employees that can manipulate them are wrapped under a single name “sales section”. For more details refers to below links. https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/encapsulation-in-C-Sharp/ https://www.tutlane.com/tutorial/csharp/csharp-encapsulation https://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/csharp_encapsulation.htm

Sonu Gupta · Answer

Encapsulation means to encapsulate or put everything into one thing and provide to other users to use it.