Re: vbc

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David Chipping wrote:
> I have run into the following situation, of which I don't understand
> and would appreciate someone filling me in on hopefully an obvious
> detail im looking over:
>
> A compilation example (that compiles) that imports System but does not
> reference System.dll:
>
> vbc /rootnamespace:xxx /target:library
> /r:System.Windows.Forms.dll,System.Drawing.dll /imports:System *.vb
>
> Would this be allowed only if the code never used System, but was
> simply just importing it for no reason at all?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -David

The Import directives (or the import switch your using) are just there
to provide a short-hand. They provide a means for you to provide a
partial class name, and for that to be resolved into a full class name.
E.g., if you have a variable within you project files which is declared
to be of type Drawing.Font, it is the imports which helps the system to
resolve this to System.Drawing.Font.

I believe that the imports are only used by the compiler - I believe
all class names are full class names by the time the Assembly is
output.

Damien

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