Nested Namespaces in C#

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Yes, creating a nested namespace is possible. However, I believe the preferred methodology for something like this would be to create a resource file

This gives you the added benefit of being able to change without a code change, as well as to support multiple languages.

I am making a few namespaces and I want them to be all under one namespace (MyNamespace), but I don't feel like going and changing all the code to add nested interfaces, and naming them MyNamespace.N1 is not very compatible with intelli-sense.

Edit: My main problem is that namespace MyNamespace.N1 { } does not seem to work right with renames and stuff like that. Is it even a true nested namespace declaration?

Underlying Question: A namespace declaration with a period in it is two namespaces. Why, then, when I rename it, does it not act right with the rename. My question may be vague, but I have such a problem with it that I thought for sure a lot of other people would have run into it. If not, then just close it and I'll try to figure it out some other way.

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I'm trying to figure out how to put all the namespaces in a project under one namespace. So you would access them using MyProject.MyN1.MyClass. If I declare the namespace like namespace MyProject.MyN1 { } and then try to rename it, the intelli-sense only looks at "MyProject" as the namespace, MyN1 is peripheral. But I'm really trying to rename "MyN1" and it doesn't like doing that.

Well, I tried that, and now I'm not sure what my problem was in the first place. As I described it it works fine. I think it was that if I try to add or remove a period in the namespace declaration it doesn't rename it right.

Answer 1

One way that would probably work is to using a global find and replace. What your actually trying to do is to rename two namespaces into one, and it's not going to let you.