Asp.net project is not recognising one of the folders in my class library.

Question

I am developing a project using Visual Studio 2008 in C#, I have added the class library within the project and set up the relevant references and used the relevant using statements. It seems to be a problem with just this one folder. can anyone help?

this is the error message:

Error 28 The type or namespace name 'Domain' does not exist in the namespace 'Forestry.SchoolLibrary' (are you missing an assembly reference?) C:\Projects\SchoolofForestry\trunk\Source\School\Account\Presenter\EditAccountPresenter.cs 26 40 School

these are my using statements:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Linq;
using System.Data.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using Forestry.SchoolLibrary.Core.Domain;
using Forestry.SchoolLibrary.Properties;

Answer 1

That's because you have a type named Domain and a namespace that ends with Domain. This is bad as it generates some problems (for example the one you are encountering). So I would recommend you removing the Domain part of the namespace or you could use the global:: identifier for a type:

var domain = new global::Forestry.SchoolLibrary.Core.Domain.Domain();

Of course as you can see this might get ugly.

Answer 2

The error you are recieving doesn't seem to match your using statements. In the error, .NET is searching for the following namespace:

Forestry.SchoolLibrary.Domain

And in your using statement, you're referencing:

Forestry.SchoolLibrary.Core.Domain

I would check if you are explicitly referencing Forestry.SchoolLibrary in the line of code causing the error.