Referencing a common namespace

Hello

I am trying to create an organised arhcitecture using namespaces and failing. What I aim to do is have a solution for each application that I develop. This solution may contain several projects which may be dlls, controls etc. I would like the solutions and everything else to be organised under my company namespace.

I would then like a namespace structure such as:

MyCompany
MyCompany.Applications
MyCompany.Applications.ToolA()
MyCompany.Applications.ToolB()
MyCompany.Applications.Controls
MyCompany.Applications.Controls
MyCompany.Applications.Controls.ControlA()
MyCompany.Applications.Controls.ControlB()

Im not sure how to set this up. I have tried simply placing approprite nested namespaces above my types but I don't get the results I expect.

namespace MyCompany
{
    namespace Applications
    {
        namespace Controls
        {
            public partial class ControlA : Form
            {}
        }
    }
}

E.g. I have 3 projects within the my ToolA solution:

ToolA
ControlA 
ControlB

ToolA is under the namespace MyCompany.Applications ControlA and ControlB are under the namespace MyCompany.Applications.Controls

How do I now reference the Controls namespace from within the ToolA project so that I can use ControlA and ControlB in it?

I know that I can add a reference to each Control project directly, but, can I not reference their common containing namespace?

And if so how...?

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