Namespaces—The First Contact
Namespaces are a fundamental concept of C# and .NET. In this section, we take our first look at namespaces and Mono in general.
Fundamentals
Namespaces can be compared with packages. Some of you already know this concept from languages such as Sun's Java. However, there are some fundamental differences that must be discussed: Namespaces are a logical structure—not every namespace has to be in a separate file. The physical organization of files has nothing to do with logical structures. The advantage is that it's no problem to use modules from different vendors without worrying about conflicts between those modules. If namespaces are used properly, conflicts are very unlikely.
To make it short: Namespaces help us to ...
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