Session 6

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Session Objectives
Explain Namespaces Create custom Namespaces Discuss types of Namespace naming Create alias for Namespaces Use namespace directives Implement .net base classes libraries
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Namespaces
Used to avoid naming conflicts Elements designed to help you organize your code.

Reduces complexity when code is to be re-used for some other application.

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Declaring a Namespace (1)

Declaration similar to classes Syntax -

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Declaring a Namespace (2)

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Declaring a Namespace (3)

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Nested Namespaces (1)

Declaring another namespace within a namespace.

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Shortcut to declare namespaces -

Nested Namespaces (2)

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Access Modifiers & Namespaces

Namespaces are public implicitly. Namespaces cannot be protected, private or internal.

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To use a class inside its namespace, we need to specify the class name. To use a class outside a namespace it has to be referred by using its fully qualified name.

Qualified Naming (1)

Syntax - Namespace.class name

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Qualified Naming (2)

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Qualified Naming (3)

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using namespace Directives (1)

With qualified naming the code gets longer and confusing.

With using namespaces long confusing names can be made short and meaningful.

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using namespace Directives (2)

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Ambiguous Names (1)

This leads to an error due to the ambiguity in class name.

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Ambiguous Names (2)

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using alias Directives

using alias directives provides us with the facility to pull just one class from the namespace into the scope.

using alias_name = fully qualified path to the namespace or class.

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Base Class Is a Library (1) that you can mass of huge pre-written code easily incorporate and use in your code.
Base Class Library is shared among all .net supported languages. Classes in the BCL are categorized into namespaces based on their functionality.

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Base Class Library (2)

Most commonly used namespaces -

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System.Array namespace (1)

Provides us with classes and methods for manipulating arrays.

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System.Array namespace (2)

Output

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System.Array namespace (3)

Other methods of the System.Array class -

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System.Threading namespace (1)

To implement multi-threading into our programs. Running one or more instances of either the same program or parts of the program simultaneously.

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System.Threading namespace (2)

Example -

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Synchronization of Threads
Example -

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For operations on files.

System.IO namespace (1)

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System.IO namespace (2)

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Other notable classes -

System.IO namespace (3)

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