Why do I need global:: here?

Question

I have run into ...I don't think I would call it a problem as much as I would a quirk. It confuses and confounds me.

I am adding Ninject to my site. It works fine. No questions about troubleshooting Ninject specifically, but I encountered this when setting up my modules...

Here is my SessionModule.cs file.

namespace Lightcast.Web.Mvc.Injection.Modules {
    public class SessionModule : Ninject.Modules.NinjectModule {

        public override void Load() {
        }
    }
}

Also shown in this screenshot.

I get the error

Unknown type 'Modules' of Lightcast.Web.Mvc.Injection.Ninject

Now if I change it to this ...

It works just fine. So obviously there is a namespace collision. What I do not understand is why? I have never encountered this before. It just seems like the absolute oddest thing to me.

Answer 1

The reason seems to be that somewhere in your project a namespace or type named Lightcast.Web.Mvc.Injection.Ninject exists that hides the global NInject namespace.