Reference a DLL but only import some of the classes in it

Asked Oct 01 '14 at 08:45

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I am consuming a legacy WCF service and need to put a ParameterInspector implementation onto the ServiceContract.

I have written a new contract with the ParameterInspector implementation fine, but the problem with this is that the Legacy service implementation has both the contract interface AND the service implementation in the same DLL.

i.e. LegacyDll.dll contains these namespaces

Legacy.Namespace.IService
Legacy.NameSpace.Service (: IService)

I have written the following namespace

namespace Legacy.Namespace
{
    [ServiceContract]
    public interface IService
    {

        [CustomDataOperationBehavior]
        [OperationContract]
        bool Methods(); ......

Everything works fine until I try to use the NEW contract (with the ParameterInspector) and the OLD service DLL, because the OLD service DLL serviceContract is the same namespace as the new ServiceContract.

So, my question is, can I reference LegacyDll.dll and somehow ignore the ServiceContract in it. i.e. partially reference a DLL ??

asked Oct 01 '14 at 08:45

SkeetJon

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you refer to my nemesis :) – SkeetJon Oct 01 '14 at 08:47
Maybe this can help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3672920/two-different-dll-with-same-namespace – Alex F Oct 01 '14 at 08:55
Thanks, extern alias allowed me to import both and just the one I needed – SkeetJon Oct 01 '14 at 10:34

Reference a DLL but only import some of the classes in it

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