Importing static methods from a namespace in C# 6

You’ll probably know that if you’d like to use the simple class names in a C# file you have to import its namespace in a using directive. If you want to use the Task class without referring to its fully qualified name including the namespace you have to put…

using System.Threading.Tasks;

…in the top section of the file. Then you can write something like…

Task t = Task.Run<ReturnType>(() => ...);

Similarly the using statement…

using System;

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