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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:19:20+00:00

Is there a way to make a single header type file in C#? In

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Is there a way to make a single “header” type file in C#?

In C++ you had something like “Mainheader.h” that had all of your includes in it.

Is there a way to do something similar for C# where you had a single file with all of your “using” keywords?

Right now I have a bunch of using such as:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Net.Mail;

Is there a way to put them all into a single header file?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Not really. The “mainheader.h” approach worked for C++ because headers are literally textual copy-and-pastes that compilers executed before actually compiling, hence the term “pre-processor directive”.

    What you may find useful is to create a template that contains some of your most commonly-used directives. Here’s a link on how to do it in Visual Studio 2010: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6db0hwky.aspx. You can do it in MonoDevelop as well, but it’s a little trickier and involves editing XML directly. Hope this suffices as a workaround.

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