How do you get the root namespace of an assembly?

Question

Given an instance of System.Reflection.Assembly.

Answer 1

I have come across this dilemma plenty of times when I want to load a resource from the current assembly by its manifest resource stream.

The fact is that if you embed a file as a resource in your assembly using Visual Studio its manifest resource name will be derived from the default namespace of the assembly as defined in the Visual Studio project.

The best solution I've come up with (to avoid hardcoding the default namespace as a string somewhere) is to simply ensure your resource loading code is ALWAYS happening from inside a class that's also in the default namespace and then the following near-generic approach may be used.

This example is loading an embedded schema.

XmlSchema mySchema; string resourceName = "MyEmbeddedSchema.xsd"; string resourcesFolderName = "Serialisation"; string manifestResourceName = string.Format("{0}.{1}.{2}",     this.GetType().Namespace, resourcesFolderName, resourceName); using (Stream schemaStream = currentAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream(manifestResourceName))     mySchema = XmlSchema.Read(schemaStream, errorHandler); 

See also: How to get Namespace of an Assembly?

Edit: Also noticed a very detailed answer to the question I'm answering at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/3a469f5d-8f55-4b25-ac25-4778f260bb7e

Another edit in case people with same question come looking: Excellent idea to solve the resource-loading question here: How get the default namespace of project csproj (VS 2008)

Answer 2

Not possible. Nothing specifies a "Root" namespace. The default namespace in the options is a visual studio thing, not a .net thing