Best Practices - WPF Custom Control Library - Organizing files, folders and namespaces

Question

So I have a WPF custom control library with a few controls.

Some of the controls are quite complex and need multiple files stuffed into their own folders. Namespaces also imitate the folder structure, so I have namespaces like SomeControl.SomeControl etc. Some controls are trivial with just one file in the top level folder. I think its all really ugly but I don't know whats not!

Any rule of thumbs when organizing a custom control library both folders and namespaces?

Answer 1

Namespaces should not be named based on folder hierarchy but based on there functionality etc. -

The name chosen for a namespace should indicate the functionality made available by types in the namespace

have a look at this MSDN article for guidelines for naming Namespaces

Names of Namespaces: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229026.aspx

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