Today I am faced with a curious challenge...
This challenge involves two .NET libraries that I need to reference from my application. Both of which I have no control
I think you have to use extern alias
extern alias
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173212.aspx
Here's a walkthrough. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ansonh/archive/2006/09/27/774692.aspx