Question

In the past, I have not really used namespaces, but in this project I am using SourceSafe which requires a project, which puts everything in namespaces…

In the past, I have just been able to make a public static class in the App_Code folder and access it frorm anywhere in my application, but now I cant seem to do that.

For example, my default.aspx.cs looks like this:

namespace Personnel_Database {     public partial class _default : System.Web.UI.Page     {         protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)         {               utils.someFunction();//this does not work 

and my utils.cs class looks like this:

namespace Personnel_Database.App_Code {     public static class utils     { 

How can I have it so I can call util.someMethod() inside of my default? Am I wrong assuming it is a namespace problem? I just want utils.cs to be available globally inside namespace Personnel_Database

Answer 1

Either you include the namespace with a using directive:

using Personnel_Database.App_Code; // now you can use everything that is inside the Personnel_Database.App_Code namespace namespace Personnel_Database {   ... 

Or you use the fully quallified name of the utils class (including its namespace), e.g:

  protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)   {     Personnel_Database.App_Code.utils.someFunction();     ...