getting agetting a bit confused with Assembly, Namespaces, Projectsand Solutions

[Giulio Petrucci]

Hi everybody,

I'm getting confused about "which-name-give-to-what" developing my
applications using Visual Studio.
If I have to develop a "Utilities" library containing some classes for
logging and other classes used for cryptography shall I build a new
Solution named "Utilities"? And how many projects shall I set in it? Let's
suppose I need to have two namespaces "Utilities.Log" and
"Utilities.Cryptography", in the same assembly... shall I create just _one_
project inside the solution? Is there a perfect correspondences
projects-->assemblies? If it's like this, there's no way to keep separated
different namespaces belonging to the same assembly in visual studio (and
it would seem to me quite "silly"...).
What am I missing?

Thanks,
Giulio

[Mattias Sjögren]

Giulio,

I'm getting confused about "which-name-give-to-what" developing my
applications using Visual Studio.
If I have to develop a "Utilities" library containing some classes for
logging and other classes used for cryptography shall I build a new
Solution named "Utilities"? And how many projects shall I set in it? Let's suppose I need to have two namespaces "Utilities.Log" and
"Utilities.Cryptography", in the same assembly... shall I create just _one_
project inside the solution?
Yes

Is there a perfect correspondences projects-->assemblies?
Most of the time yes.

If it's like this, there's no way to keep separated
different namespaces belonging to the same assembly in visual studio (and
it would seem to me quite "silly"...).
What am I missing?

You can create subdirectories within the project. VS will even take
that into consideration when adding the default namespace to new
source code files.
Mattias

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