How can I get the fully qualified namespace from a using directive in Roslyn?

Question

When you hover over a \"simplified\" using directive in VS2015, it shows you the fully-qualified name. How would I get this information via a Roslyn plugin? Wou

Answer 1

With the semantic model you can retrieve information about the semantics that make up your code (evidently) -- this allows you to get specific information about types and other constructs.

For example:

void Main()
{
    var tree = CSharpSyntaxTree.ParseText(@"
using X = System.Text;
using Y = System;
using System.IO;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
}"
);

    var mscorlib = PortableExecutableReference.CreateFromFile(typeof(object).Assembly.Location);
    var compilation = CSharpCompilation.Create("MyCompilation", syntaxTrees: new[] { tree }, references: new[] { mscorlib });
    var semanticModel = compilation.GetSemanticModel(tree);
    var root = tree.GetRoot();

    // Get usings
    foreach (var usingDirective in root.DescendantNodes().OfType())
    {
        var symbol = semanticModel.GetSymbolInfo(usingDirective.Name).Symbol;
        var name = symbol.ToDisplayString(SymbolDisplayFormat.FullyQualifiedFormat);
        name.Dump();
    }
}

Output:

global::System.Text
global::System
global::System.IO

If you use SymbolDisplayFormat.CSharpErrorMessageFormat instead, you will receive

System.Text
System
System.IO

Your choice what you're interested in but as you can see it works just fine with aliases and without.