Avoiding Ambiguities

You might have situations in which you need to access objects with the same name, coming from different namespaces. For example, both Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation technologies provide a MessageBox class. In interoperability scenarios, where you have both references to Windows Forms and WPF assemblies, invoking such objects could result in ambiguities. Consider the following code:

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Imports System.Windows.Forms'The following is a project-level Imports and only added for demo purposesImports System.WindowsClass Window1    Public Sub MyMethod()        MessageBox.Show("")    End SubEnd Class

Both System.Windows and System.Windows.Forms namespaces expose a MessageBox class, but ...

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