Include

[Manish Agarwal]

One common use of C++ #include I am looking for including file with using
statements. Typically in a big C# program I have to write around 15-20 using
statements on the top every file.

like-
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;
using blah blah blah

If I put these using statement in a single C# file and include in every C#
file. Life will be cool. Same problem with Java. Any alternate to this
problem or reason why we don't have this in C#?

 

[William Ryan eMVP]

http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/projectimports.html

 

[Manish Agarwal]

It is not for C#

text from http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/projectimports.html

"Yes, there is a shortcut, for the same reason System always seem to be
there. In the Property Pages dialog for a VB.NET project (not available in
C#)"

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

One common use of C++ #include I am looking for including file with using
statements. Typically in a big C# program I have to write around 15-20 using
statements on the top every file.

like-
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;
using blah blah blah

If I put these using statement in a single C# file and include in every C#
file. Life will be cool. Same problem with Java. Any alternate to this
problem or reason why we don't have this in C#?

If you're having to put 15-20 using statements at the top of every
file, chances are your classes are *way* too big. Very, very
occasionally I'll end up with about 10, but pretty much never more than
that.

I would suggest making your classes do less (but having more of them) -
that will make your code more maintainable and get rid of this problem,
both in one fell swoop.