Question

I have a Silverlight 4 application where I am making use of shared classes. In the .Web project, I have a class called “X.Shared.cs”. This class has three string properties. When I build the application, it gives an error saying “The type ‘X’ already contains a definition for ‘Y'”. It seems that the properties in the generated code in the Silverlight Application are being seen as duplicates. I have tried cleaning my solution and rebuilding, this helps every now and then but is totally inconsistent.

Has anyone had experience in this issue? Am I perhaps doing something wrong?

The code for the shared class (X.Shared.cs) is as follows:

public partial class VideoItem
{
    [Key]
    public String ID
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    public String ImageURL
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    public String URL
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

Here is a screenshot of the solution explorer showing the generated shared file:

Answer 1

To solve this problem, I created a blank .shared.cs class containing no properties (this is obviously a partial class). I then created another partial class in the same namespace with that class name and in here I put all the properties I needed to access.