Namespace prefix in C#

Question

I can already do:

using System.Windows.Forms;
Button b;

or:

System.Windows.Forms.Button b;

but I would like to do:

using System.Windows;
Forms.Button b;

(because Button is ambiguous with another namespace, and typing System.Windows.Forms.Button is too long).

However this gives me an error, how can I achieve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

A namespace alias perhaps:

using Forms = System.Windows.Forms;

The "using System.Windows" is now superfluous unless you use classes in that namespace.