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Bob
Bob

Reputation: 119

how to alias a class name in c# used in webservice

My web service is returning 

 List<Term_Tree>

via web method. The Term_Tree class is defined as below

 public class Term_Tree
{
    public string ID;
    public string Name;
    public List<Item> BroaderTerms;
    public List<Item> NarrowerTerms;

}

My preferred name for this class is "Term" (i.e. i want to return List<Term> via web method) but there is another class with the name "Term" and is widely used in the code. Is it possible to give this class some sort of alias to return List<Term>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 658

Answers (2)

Arran
Arran

Reputation: 25076

Use a using directive, something like (using a test namespace):

using Term = My.Very.Easy.NameSpace.Term_Tree;

Which would become:

List<Term> list = new List<Term>();

Upvotes: 1

Mathew Thompson
Mathew Thompson

Reputation: 56449

You'd have to add a using alias in order to distinguish, something like:

using Term = YourNameSpace.Term_Tree;

BUT, if you use your other Term class in the same file, you'd have to prefix that one with it's namespace, otherwise you'd get ambiguous reference errors

Upvotes: 1

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