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Asked: 2026-05-28T20:09:52+00:00

I noticed something curious when messing around with nested classes and outputting the name

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I noticed something curious when messing around with nested classes and outputting the name of the type to a console window. I was wondering if someone could explain it a bit for me. When calling GetType() on the main class, it returns what I would expect, which was the name of the class after the relevant namespaces. i.e. Namespace.Namespace.Classname

However, when I call a function from within the enclosing class to return the type of the nested class I get the value returned as this:

Namespace.Namespace.ClassNameEnclosing + ClassNameNested.

Why is it not simply returned as dot notation. Why the + symbol? I am just curious as to what is going on in the background that causes this notation.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Dots are used to denote namespaces. The nested class is still in the same namespace, it’s just nested within a class.

    I can’t tell offhand (from a brief study of ECMA-335) whether an unqualified type name which included a dot would actually be valid in IL; I suspect it would, but it would make all kinds of diagnostics harder to read.

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