Does everything in a single namespace compile into its own assembly?
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No.
You can have several namespaces in an assembly, and you can use the same namespace in different assemblies.
Guffa
2009-03-20 21:58:23
E.g. System.dll and System.Core.dll both contain types in both the System and System.Collections.Generic namespaces (amongst many others).
Richard
2009-03-20 23:16:50
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No, you can have multiple namespaces within an assembly. In VS terms, you can think of an assembly as a project. Each project within a solution, gets compiled into it's own assembly. Within an assembly though, you can have multiple namespaces.
BFree
2009-03-20 21:58:26
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If you're asking if each namespace results in a seperate assembly, then no. One assembly can contain multiple namespaces.
Aistina
2009-03-20 21:59:28
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Assemblies and namespaces have nothing to do with each other except that there's a generally used convention that the full names of classes in an assembly will match the assembly name (in some way).
It's strictly a naming convention - as Guffa said, assemblies can define classes for more than one namespace and the classes that exist in a namespace can come from more than one assembly.
Michael Burr
2009-03-20 22:17:19
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After 1 year : I have two projects in single solution. I want to access few class from project 1 into project 2. I have added reference of project 2 in project 1. I can see dll of project 2 has been copied into reference section of project 1, but then also I am not able use namespace I have used in project 2. can anyone suggest some solution to this problem? Please let me know if you need some more information about this problem.
Thanks !!!
Shekhar
2010-07-28 07:46:24