Questions tagged [namespace]
Namespaces are a language feature of many programming languages, allowing local reuse of class and variable names.
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What is a component in C#?
Introduction Components are an important building block of software. In terms of software architecture, there are a lot of principles regarding components that should be adhered to (high cohesion, low ...
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C++ Is it okay to use nested classes as a way to namespace derived classes?
I have many abstract classes that describe many abstract ideas and objects. These classes have many complex relationships with each other, and I realize that while writing code with some of the ...
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Why would you have a different namespace for each folder in a C# project?
I can't see how having a namespace for each folder makes sense. As near as I can tell, the point of having namespaces is to avoid name conflicts. But, Microsoft, in their namespace naming conventions, ...
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aliases for namespaces in headers?
Everytime I write a header I end up doing something like this: #ifndef D723E2D5_1943_4166_87CC_73F5C9C47544 #define D723E2D5_1943_4166_87CC_73F5C9C47544 #include "RandomIntegers.hpp" ... #...
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Namespace hierarchy in C#
I have a C# class library shared among several applications. The library is divided into a few smaller components which have dependencies shown in the picture below. Each component is placed in its ...
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Is it a bad practice to have a class with a namespace that goes "out" of it's project name?
I have a solution with multiple projects, lets suppose there's one project with the name Company.Name.Foo.Bar. If I declare a class inside the project Company.Name.Foo.Bar but with a namespace Company....
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Is it a good practice to have XML document with no-namespace elements in the middle
I have an XML looking like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <n0:OrderConfirmation xmlns:n0="http://company.org/interface/MVSI" xmlns:ord="...
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Using the symbol ⎋ to denote any "escape" in Javascript, CSS, HTML etc
I know that: Computer keyboards have an Escape Key The symbol for the Escape Key is U+238B Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow (⎋) and I also know that: HTML5 & CSS3 both have escape characters ...
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Are namespace constructs like 'using std::string' unacceptable also in .cpp files?
I understand the rationale of avoiding using namespace std - this defines too many casual names the developer may not be even aware of. I tried to work around the problem with the help of using ...
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Am I using namespaces wrong?
I'm obsessed with organization - it's probably the real reason why I enjoy coding. So I namespace everything. But I'm just curious if I'm doing it wrong by being redundant. Consider this, which I ...
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Should I use other framework's namespaces in my code?
I'm writing some tools to be used on the top a specific framework, in C#. Most of my code should use the naming convention CompanyName.TechnologyName[.Feature][.Design], but I wonder if in some cases ...
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How can I cleanly handle deeply nested namespaces in C++?
The first language that I truly learned was Java. In it, it is very syntactically easy to nest classes in an essentially arbitrarily complex package hierarchy, which keeps the code organized. It is ...
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Can/should multiple application contexts share a common microservice in a single namespace?
My current employer has a single namespace into which all microservices for all projects are deployed. Projects A, B and C all use microservice x in this common namespace: Rather than each design and ...
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Refactor namespaces in a library while keeping backwards-compatibility
We developed a generic .NET library for our line-of business applications. This is what our namespace/class structure looked like 5 years ago: ... AcmeCorp.Tools.ExcelWriter AcmeCorp.Tools....
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When no other class ever needs to touch the (nested) class - should I always make it a (private) nested class?
And what is the recommended file structure? The question is a bit similar to this one, but I'm looking for more explicit recommendations. In theory I think it's a good concept to keep files short ...
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