Instancing a class with an internal constructor

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An alternative would be to nominate the calling assembly as a “friend” assembly.

Simply add this to AssemblyInfo.cs file of the assembly containing the internal constructor:

[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Calling.Assembly")]

If you don’t have access to the assembly, you can also call the constructor directly (using Reflection):

MyClass obj = (MyClass) typeof(MyClass).GetConstructor(
                  BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance,
                  null, Type.EmptyTypes, null).Invoke(null);

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