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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Global Namespaces and the Global Keyword

A common scenario in .NET development is creating class libraries that will be reused in other projects or given (or sold) to other developers. In these situations, it is convenient defining one or more first-level namespaces that can expose types or other namespaces. However, when you create a new project, Visual Basic also defines the root namespace (refer to Figure 9.1 for an example). This implies that defining a custom namespace like this:

Namespace MyUtilities  Public Class Utility1    'Your implementation goes here...  End ClassEnd Namespace

causes the Visual Basic compiler to include the new namespace inside the root one whose name is, by default, the same as the ...

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