External alias in XAML

Question

I\'m currently using a library that implements Menus and ContextMenus for Silverlight 3 and 4. This library d

Answer 1

Finally I've found a workaround : I've created a library project that wraps the types from the menus library.

For instance :

namespace Alias
{
    public class MenuItem : System.Windows.Controls.MenuItem
    {
    }
}

I then reference this project from my real project and can use the type through their "new" namespace "Alias".

It's a kind of "heavy alias" but seems to work.