Partial classes over seperate namespaces

Question

In a project I'm currently using the EF using the tools included in Visual Studio I generated the POCO-classes for my database. I moved these files to a seperate folder and in a seperate namespace. The customizations for these classes are expected to be created in another folder in its own namespace. (if we follow the project guidelines by the letter) Which brings me to my question: do partial classes and their customizations have to be declared in the same namespace or could the be spread over 2 seperate namespaces? (in my case x.generated and x.customized)

Olivier Muhring · Answer

OK thx... I'll change the namespace into something more generic. :)

Vulpes · Answer

Remembering that namespaces themselves can be split (over either one or multiple files) the partial classes have to be in namespaces with the same name. If they're in namespaces with different names then they'll be treated as separate classes. So in other words the partial classes must have the same fully-qualified names.