In C#, when you add a using directive for a namespace, it gives you access to all the types in that specific namespace. However, if the namespace has a lot of types and I only need one particular one, I often just use the fully qualified name thinking that I don't want to make available any unnecessary classes I know I am not going to use (especially if there are a lot of them in that namespace) for performance reasons. I was thinking that there has to be some impact to performance (no matter how minute) to make them available as opposed to not, but how much? (if there actually is one). And if so, would it then be bad practice to do this all over the place, because wouldn't it then start to accumulate to something noticable (performance wise)?
I did see the other SO post about using the using directive vs fully qualified names, but it wasn't in reference to performance.
The using directive is only syntactic sugar that disappears during compilation. Whether or not the namespace was included via using or mentioned in a fully-qualified type name is totally irrelevant in the resulting bytecode. Hence, there is no performance benefit at runtime by using one or the other.