Are private members inherited in C#?

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A derived class has access to the
public, protected, internal, and
protected internal members of a base
class. Even though a derived class
inherits the private members of a base
class, it cannot access those members.
However, all those private members are
still present in the derived class and
can do the same work they would do in
the base class itself. For example,
suppose that a protected base class
method accesses a private field. That
field has to be present in the derived
class in order for the inherited base
class method to work properly.

From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173149.aspx

So, technically, yes, but practically, no.

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