Is there a way to have your own namespace named 'x.System'

Question

namespace Company.Product.System
{
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
...

This generates compiler errors because now Visual Studio can't find System.Collections.Generic;. Is there a way to workaround this? I don't want to hear about if this is a bad idea not, this decision comes from above me and I have very little choice in the matter.

Why don't you put your using statements outside of the namespace? — Scott Chamberlain, Jul 26 '14 at 02:09
@ScottChamberlain That's a good idea, one that's obvious but didn't occur to me. The code was generated by a tool — cost, Jul 26 '14 at 03:27

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 26 '14 at 02:12

You have two options, put the using statement outside of the namespace

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Company.Product.System
{
...

Or add the global:: prefix to the namespace, this forces it to use the root instead of assuming you are wanting to use Company.Product.System.Collections

namespace Company.Product.System
{
using global::System;
using global::System.Collections.Generic;
...

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '14 at 02:11

3

Either move your using directives outside of the namespace block or use the the global namespace alias like so:

namespace Company.System
{
    using global::System.Collections.Generic;
}

answered Jul 26 '14 at 02:11

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Is there a way to have your own namespace named 'x.System'

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