Using a class in a namespace with the same name?

Question

I have to use an API provided by a DLL with a header like this

namespace ALongNameToType {
    class ALongNameToType {
        static void Foo();   
    }
}

Is there a way to use ALongNameToType::ALongNameToType::Foo without having to type ALongNameToType::ALongNameToType each time? I tried using using namespace ALongNameToType but got ambiguous symbol errors in Visual Studio. Changing the namespace name or removing it gives me linker errors.

Answer 1

I don't know what's ambiguous, but you can avoid all conflicts with other Foo functions like this:

namespace ALongNameToType {
    struct ALongNameToType {
        static void Foo();   
    };
}

typedef ALongNameToType::ALongNameToType Shortname;

int main() {
    Shortname::Foo();
}

Answer 2

namespace myns = ALongNameToType;

It seems that you can't alias a class scope like this:

// second ALongNameToType is a class
namespace myns = ALongNameToType::ALongNameToType;

Maybe you could alias the function it self:

namespace foo
{
 class foo
 {
 public:
  static void fun()
  {

  }
 };
}

int main()
{
 void (*myfunc)() = foo::foo::fun;

 myfunc();
}