Why does my VB.NET class library show "My" and "My.Resources" namespaces in Reflector?

Question

I have no intention of using "My" for anything in any of my projects. I haven't done anything with it (that I know of). But every one of class libraries shows a "My" namespace in Reflector and NDepend. This adds a lot of unnecessary clutter.

1) Why does it show up?

2) How can I remove it?

Answer 1

Steps to remove the "My" Namespace

• In the project properties, turn off "Enable application framework"
• Under advanced compile options, turn on "Enable Optimizations"
• Show all files in the project
• Delete the Application.myapp node, Resources.resx, and Settings.settings nodes.
• Unload the project, open the .vbproj in notepad, change the <MyType> to <MyType>Empty</MyType>
• Reload the project and compile.

For resources, use standard resource files and their constructors (My just did a wrapper of this).

For Settings, use the config file.