New Features in C# 2.0—Access Objects in the Global Namespace

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Access Objects in the Global Namespace

As in previous versions of C#, the namespace keyword is used to declare a scope. This lets you organize your code and prevents identifier collisions (for example, two different classes with the same name), especially when using third-party components.

Any object that is not defined within a specific namespace is in the global namespace. Objects in the global namespace are available to objects in any other namespace. If a name collision occurs, however, you will need a way to specify that you want the object in the global namespace rather than in the local namespace.