VB.NET 2005 Free Training : Visual Studio.NET Namespaces - The .NET Framework class library has thousands of classes which are needed for developing and deploying solutions. In order to organize all those classes for ease of use .NET Framework uses namespaces. This Gives the Classes their own space and prevents conflicts between the various names in these classes. For instance if two classes contain a method Paint(), then to avoid conflicts in names we can place these classes in two different namespaces. Thus namespaces allow classes to be grouped in a consistent, hierarchical manner.