Resolving an ambiguous reference

Question

I'm trying to create a manager class to use with my charting tool, the problem is the tool I use, uses the same names for both a 3d and 2d charts which is resulting in ambiguous reference when I try to add the 2d library.. any ideas how best to resolve this?

For example,

using tool.2dChartLib; using tool.3dChartLib; 

BorderStyle is a member of both of these

I've tried casting the areas where I use BorderStyle. I suppose it could work if i just reference tool but then that would mean I'd have hundreds of tool.class lines instead of class

Answer 1

If the types with the same name exist in both namespaces, you have a couple of options:

1) If the number of types is small, create an alias for that type:

using BorderStyle3d = tool.3dChartLib.BorderStyle; 

2) If the number of types is large, you can create an alias for the namespace:

using t3d = tool.3dChartLib; 

Then in your code...

t3d.BorderStyle