Using Namespace Aliases

11 October 2007 - 1:43 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 1 Comment for Using Namespace Aliases.

Cool C# Snippets - Ever get tired of prefixing class names with the fully qualified namespace to avoid class name and namespace conflicts (eg. System.Namespace.AnotherNamespace.User). Well there’s a way around it using Namespace Aliases.

Type Less with Namespace Aliases

Ever grow tired of writing this...

System.Web.Namespace.AnotherNamespace.YetAnotherNamespace.User user =
	new System.Web.Namespace.AnotherNamespace.YetAnotherNamespace.User();

...all so you can use the User object in that namespace without it conflicting with about a gazillion other User classes elsewhere? If so then use a Namespace alias eg...

using MyAlias = System.Web.Namespace.AnotherNamespace.YetAnotherNamespace;

and in your code...

MyAlias.User user = new MyAlias.User();

Alternatively you can also alias the class itself eg...

using CustomUser = System.Web.Namespace.AnotherNamespace.YetAnotherNamespace.User;

and in code...

CustomUser user = new CustomUser();

Pretty cool time saving technique I reckon.

And whoa, that’s my first post on this blog in nearly 10 months! Seems I hardly get any time to write these things, so I'm going to try and write them shorter like this.

Using Namespace Aliases

Type Less with Namespace Aliases

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