C# "is inaccessible due to its protection level" error in constructor

Question

The constructor of the child class "caesar" gives an error. It says that name, type is inaccessible due to its protection level. How come? As this is a child class derived from "Cipher" class it shouldn't give an error like this. How can I overcome this situation. But I want those variables to be private. I don't want to change them as public.

***The second code example works. Can anybody see a difference?

namespace Encrypter
{
    class Cipher
    {
        public Cipher(string name, string type)
        {
            setName(name);
            setType(type);

        }
        private string name;
        private string type;

        public void setName(string newName)
        {
            name = newName;
        }
        public string getName()
        {
            return name;
        }
        public void setType(string newType)
        {
            type = newType;
        }
        public string getType()
        {
            return type;
        }
        public string encrypt(string text)
        {
            return text;
        }
        public string decrypt(string text)
        {
            return text;
        }
    }
}




namespace Encrypter
{
    class Caesar : Cipher
    {

        private int shiftamount;
        private string shiftdirection;
        public Caesar(int shiftamount, string shiftdirection) : base(name, type)
        {
            setShiftamount(shiftamount);
            setShiftdirection(shiftdirection);
        }
        public void setShiftamount(int newShiftamount)
        {
            shiftamount = newShiftamount;
        }
        public int getShiftamount()
        {
            return shiftamount;
        }
        public void setShiftdirection(string newShiftdirection)
        {
            shiftdirection = newShiftdirection;
        }
        public string getShiftdirection()
        {
            return shiftdirection;
        }

    }
}

----------------------------- New Edit ----------------

class MyFile
    {
        public MyFile(int id, string name, int size, string type)
        {
            setId(id);
            setName(name);
            setSize(size);
            setType(type);

        }
        private int id;
        private string name;
        private string type;
        private int size;




class Movie : MyFile
    {
        private string director;
        private int release_year;
        public Movie(string director, int release_year, int id, string name, int size) : base( id,  name,  size, "m")
        {
            setDirector(director);
            setRelease_year(release_year);
        }

Answer 1

It looks like you have made a mistake in defining the derived class constructor. If you want to get name and type values to the superclass, you'll have to pass them in as additional constructor arguments (for a total of 4 arguments in the derived class constructor.) For example, changing it to this should work:

    public Caesar(int shiftamount, 
                  string shiftdirection, 
                  string name, 
                  string type) 
                  : base(name, type)

There are a number of other strategies you could take.