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Namespace problem in my usercontrol

Hi Experts,

Here is the problem:

namespace MyDirectory.UserControls.MyDirectory.File
{
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls;

public class NewFile : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
... code
}
}

In my Asp .Net UserControl, if in the code, I want to use my other namespace like MyDirectory.MyDirectory.OtherNameSpace, then Visual Studio debugger tells me the namespace is unknown and I can only access to UserControls.MyDirectory.
The 2 namespaces MyDirectory.UserControls.MyDirectory shadows MyDirectory.MyDirectory. Why ?

How to use this namespace without any namespace title modify ?

Thanks in advance for your help. Hope I was clear.

Note that outside the usercontrol namespace, I can use both.

nauman_ahmed

Hey noulouk , why do you have such a namespace then :) namespace MyDirectory.UserControls.MyDirectory.File? Dont you want to change it to MyProjectTitle.UserControls.MyDirectory.File?

Best, Nauman.

noulouk

ASKER

No, I don't want to change it. It works inside all my app except for usercontrol.
Or if I change it, this will be:MyProjectTitle.MyDirectory.UserControls.MyDirectory. So same problem.

Sorry for the headhache ;-)

Thogek

Within your user control, add a using statement at the top of the file:

using MyDirectory.MyDirectory.OtherNameSpace;

Just because they're in the same project/DLL doesn't mean they can automatically reference each other if their namespaces are different.

noulouk

ASKER

Thanks Thogek,

I already try this and works well outside the code.
But if I want to use it inside the code the first MyDirectory is UserControls.MyDirectory namespace ?????????? (ie Visual Studio hover menu) .
Is this a Visual Studio bug ?

Thogek

Huh?
It sounds like you're dealing with a namespace clash, but the details are very unclear from the above. If this is correct, what exactly are the two namespaces of yours that are clashing?

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noulouk

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Perfect, you save my life.