Question

I’m building a library that’s called “Fieldsearch” and I need people to invoke it like this:

FieldSearch x = new FieldSearch();

Problem is, if my solution is called FieldSearch and my class library is called FieldSearch.Lib, I can’t call the actual class FieldSearch.

'Foo' is a 'namespace' but is used like a 'type'

What do you suggest I do for this case, sans calling my actual class something else?

Answer 1

Generally the best practice is to use the plural form for namespaces and the singular for classes therein. For example, System.Windows.Forms contains a class called Form.

So in this example, your namespace could be called FieldSearches (or CompanyName.ProductName.FieldSearches if you want to use that convention). Now the “FieldSearch” class won’t match the namespace.