Question

The code I’m working with has a class called Environment that is not in any namespace. Unfortunately if I am in a class that imports the System namespace, there is no way to refer to the custom class called Environment. I know this was an unfortunate choice and should be refactored, but is there any way I can explicitly refer to the conflicting class?

In C++ it seems the way to do this is by using ::, and in Java there is something called global:: How do I do it in C#?

Answer 1

C# also has a global (or unnamed) namespace – you can use global:: to access your class:

global::Environment 

See more on MSDN. Also see the :: operator.

You can create an alias for it as well:

using myEnv = global::Environment;
using sysEnv = System.Environment;