Namespace not recognized (even though it is there)

Question

I am getting this error:

The type or namespace name \'AutoMapper\' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Answer 1

I've had a similar issue, that took a bit to troubleshoot, so I thought to share it:

The namespace that could not be resolved in my case was Company.Project.Common.Models.EF. I had added a file in a new Company.Project.BusinessLogic.Common namespace.

The majority of the files were having a

using Company.Project;

And then referencing the models as Common.Models.EF. All the files that also had a

using Company.Project.BusinessLogic;

Were failing as VS could not determine which namespace to use.

The solution has been to change the second namespace to Company.Project.BusinessLogic.CommonServices