Ambiguous type name

Question

I have an issue with the shadowed visibility of types. Let's assume the following code:

namespace A {
    class B {
        int V1;
        class A {
            class B { }
            void Foo() {
                A.B b; 
                // "b" should be of the first type "B", 
                // but it actually points to A.B.A.B
                b.V1 = 1; //Compile error
            }
        }
    }
}

How can I declare a variable of Type "A.B" (where "A" should be the namespace, not the nested class "A") at the place, where "b" is declared?

Answer 1

You can use an alias:

using ClassB = A.B;

Now ClassB refers to the type you want.

However, I would very strongly urge you to reconsider your class names so this is no longer a problem.

Answer 2

Use the "global"-keyword:

global::A.B b;