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What should go into the top level namespace? For example, if I have MyAPI.WebLogic, MyAPI.Compression, etc. If I put classes into the top level namespace, am I violating the principle of encapsulation?
Depends what the classes are.
One guideline I try to follow is that dependencies between namespaces shouldn’t follow a cycle. In other words, low-level namespaces can’t access types from higher-level namespaces.
This means that the top-level MyAPI namespace must contain either:
Patrick Smacchia has written a lot on the advantages of structuring your code in this way, including on this site: Detecting dependencies between namespaces in .NET