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@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 ---
-description: "file modifier: Declare types whose scope is the file in which it's declared"
-title: "file keyword"
-ms.date: 09/15/2022
+description: "The file modifier: Declare types whose visibility is the file in which it's declared"
+title: "The file keyword"
+ms.date: 12/10/2024
 f1_keywords: 
   - "file_CSharpKeyword"
 helpviewer_keywords: 
   - "file keyword [C#]"
 ---
-# file (C# Reference)
+# The file modifier
 
 Beginning with C# 11, the `file` contextual keyword is a type modifier.
 
-The `file` modifier restricts a top-level type's scope and visibility to the file in which it's declared. The `file` modifier will generally be applied to types written by a source generator. File-local types provide source generators with a convenient way to avoid name collisions among generated types. The `file` modifier declares a file-local type, as in this example:
+The `file` modifier restricts a top-level type's visibility to the file in which it's declared. The `file` modifier is most often applied to types written by a source generator. File-local types provide source generators with a convenient way to avoid name collisions among generated types. The `file` modifier declares a file-local type, as in this example:
 
 ```csharp
 file class HiddenWidget
@@ -20,11 +20,9 @@ file class HiddenWidget
 }
 ```
 
-Any types nested within a file-local type are also only visible within the file in which it's declared. Other types in an assembly may use the same name as a file-local type. Because the file-local type is visible only in the file where it's declared, these types don't create a naming collision.
+Any types nested within a file-local type are also only visible within the file in which it's declared. Other types in an assembly can use the same name as a file-local type. Because the file-local type is visible only in the file where it's declared, these types don't create a naming collision.
 
-A file-local type can't be the return type or parameter type of any member that is more visible than `file` scope. A file-local type can't be a field member of a type that has greater visibility than `file` scope. However, a more visible type may implicitly implement a file-local interface type. The type can also [explicitly implement](../../programming-guide/interfaces/explicit-interface-implementation.md) a file-local interface but explicit implementations can only be used within the `file` scope.
-
-## Example
+A file-local type can't be the return type or parameter type of any member declared in a non file-local type. A file-local type can't be a field member of a non-file-local. However, a more visible type can implicitly implement a file-local interface type. The type can also [explicitly implement](../../programming-guide/interfaces/explicit-interface-implementation.md) a file-local interface but explicit implementations can only be used within the same file.
 
 The following example shows a public type that uses a file-local type to provide a worker method. In addition, the public type implements a file-local interface implicitly:
 
@@ -34,6 +32,8 @@ In another source file, you can declare types that have the same names as the fi
 
 :::code language="csharp" source="./snippets/Program.cs" id="ShadowsFileScopedType":::
 
+Member lookup prefers a file-local type declared in the same file over a non-file-local type declared in a different file. This rule ensures that a source generator can rely on member lookup resolving to a file-local type without ambiguity with other type declarations. In the preceding example, all uses of `HiddenWidget` in *File1.cs* resolve to the file-local type declared in *File1.cs*. The file-local declaration of `HiddenWidget` hides the public declaration in *File2.cs*.
+
 ## C# language specification  
 
 For more information, see [Declared accessibility](~/_csharpstandard/standard/basic-concepts.md#752-declared-accessibility) in the [C# Language Specification](~/_csharpstandard/standard/README.md), and the [C# 11 - File local types](~/_csharplang/proposals/csharp-11.0/file-local-types.md) feature specification.