'System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog' is a type not a namespace

Question

It is possible that I\'m missing something very obvious but now I can not see now. I have the reference to System.Windows.Forms and I have the next using<

Answer 1

You cannot do

using System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog;

as it is a type and not a namespace. The namespace it belongs to is System.Windows.Forms. Remove this line and if you want to instantiate a FolderBrowserDialog and just make sure you have the line

using System.Windows.Forms;

and make a FolderBrowserDialog like so:

var fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog();

---

All this is in contrast to Java, where you import types not use namespaces, which is where you may be going wrong - in Java you would do something like:

import System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog;

and then be able to use it.