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Double Colons

Double Colons

John Smith

John Smith

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I was wondering what do the double colons mean :: in C# .

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Francis Susaimichael11y ago
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For your question, i just want to highlight the points specified in MSDN. As per the MSDN documentation :: is used for:

in larger projects, it is a very real possibility that namespace duplication may occur in one form or another. In these situations, the global namespace qualifier is your guarantee that you can specify the root namespace.

For more information, i suggest go thru the below link, which had a simple and clean example to understand it.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/htccxtad.aspx

Hope this helps!
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Supreeth J11y ago
Hi,

The namespace alias qualifier (::) is used to look up identifiers. It is always positioned between two identifiers, as in this example:
```
global::System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
```
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