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The scenario is I would like to be able reference two similar 3rd party assemblies (e.g. assem1 and assem2) which both define a type with the same fully qualified name (e.g. Example.MyType).
Is there any way to distinguish between these and refernce them seperately? I believe the answer is no but confirmation or correction would be handy.
Edit: Answered for C# 2.0 and higher below but need an answer in VB.Net 1.1
You can certainly do it in C# – you need to use extern aliases to specify which one you want in each case. Anson Horton has a walkthrough which is useful.
I don’t know whether VB has a similar feature.
Of course, it’s worth avoiding this situation if you possibly can 🙂