[Silverlight, C#] User Controls and Namespaces

In working with my user controls I started creating elements dynamically which were then moved back and forth from user control to user control depending on the actions the user was taking. I then ran into some naming problems: I had a function that would check for the existence of a name before I added the element to the DOM, however, I was getting some unexpected results.

So then I asked myself the question... how is this even working? I have multiple copies of a user control, how come I am not seeing naming convention issues when I use the same control twice in my application?

I did a little test regarding User Controls and the names of objects inside them and determined: User Controls create an implicit new namespace so that the elements within it may continue to be named the same. This means you cannot 'find' an element name that does not DIRECTLY belong to the user control namespace you are searching in.

Check out the screen shot of the application I whipped up, and hopefully it will make sense.

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