What namespace will a class have if no namespace is defined

In the addition to above answers, it is important to note, what all Type, regardless of its declaration location, has a "fully qualified name", which begins from "global::"

From "O'Relly. C# in a Nutshell":

All type names are converted to fully qualified names at compile time. Intermediate Language (IL) code contains no unqualified or partially qualified names


Types not defined within a namespace will be in the global namespace.

The global contextual keyword, when it comes before the :: operator, refers to the global namespace, which is the default namespace for any C# program and is otherwise unnamed.

The following example shows how to use the global contextual keyword to specify that the class TestApp is defined in the global namespace:

C# class TestClass : global::TestApp { }

It's in the global namespace and can be referenced like this:

var x = new global::test();

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