C# Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (18) Understanding Namespaces and Adding References to Assemblies

The Discussion

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  Hi Bob,

  Where can I download the Tabor.dll file from?

  Garry

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  @gwkmah:in the zip of codes

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  @topgearlmh - maybe a noob question but where is said 'zip of codes' I dont see a link to it anywhere on this page

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  @gwkmah @topgearlmh Same here, can't see any zips on the page at all.

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  For the source code files, go to the older tutorial of C#... at this link: 

  https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C-Sharp-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners

  and click on "Download the entire series' source code" link. Tabor.dll file is in C9CS_17 folder. 

  P.S. Bob, great series!  Thank you!!!

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  Hi Bob,

  To my understanding the entire concept of the 'using' statements is to save us from writing code as you demonstrated in the video.

  but i also noticed that you have the following statement in your example

  using System;

    but you still use the 'System' namespace in the following line of code:
  

  System.IO.StreamReader myStreamReader = new System.IO.StreamReader();

  why do you still need to use it if it is already declared in the beginning?

   

   

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  @TheSpecialist: Why do I still use it even though it is already declared in the beginning?  Good question.  The answer is the *technically* I don't have to.  However, *practically* I choose this "style" because it is expressive.  If you are new to .NET, it would still be obvious to you the full namespace where the:

  IO.StreamReader

  ... is coming from.  I am explicit in these cases for others who read my code (and heck, for myself ... I'll have to read that code again someday!)

  So, in short, it's simply a style preference.

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  Thx Bob, i used to have experience with java environment si i'm actually a newbie to .NET. Thank You very much for the great review od .NET framework and expecially a DLL file meaning :)

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  HI Bob,

  First of all thank you for such a interesting and detailed lessons for beginners! You are cool!

  I have 2 questions:

  1. if (Can I use .NET libraries when I work with Unity3D) how? ;

  2. how can we create our own libraries?

  Thank you!

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  Bob,
  
  Thanks for these tutorials. How would I include a source file I made, that exists in the same directory?

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  Hey thanks Bob for the awesome videos!! Just started learning about C# not too long ago.

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  Bob's the man.

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  Hey Bob,
  how can i get an integer or float input from the user.

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  Hi Bob, GReatVideos, its been one full weekand one day and im up to 18. Dont know where to download do i go toyour site.
  
  J.

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  Hi Bob,
  Thank you so much for all of your series of tutorials, I can't never get enough, even when repeating them over and over again I never get bored!
  My question is:" Can we consider namespaces in C# as Headers in C/C++?"

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  @NurkaSnegurka:
  
  Thanks for that link, helped me a lot.