The scenario is I would like to be able reference two similar 3rd party assemblies (e.g. assem1 and assem2) which both define a type with the same fully qualified name (e.g. Example.MyType).
Is there any way to distinguish between these and refernce them seperately? I believe the answer is no but confirmation or correction would be handy.

Edit: Answered for C# 2.0 and higher below but need an answer in VB.Net 1.1