How Do We Deal With Queue and Topic of the Same Name

The NamespaceManager.TopicExist call fails when there is a Queue with the same name. The following is raised when I do a NamespaceManager.TopicExist("customers") when there is a queue with the name 'customers'.

An exception of type 'Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging.MessagingException' occurred in Microsoft.ServiceBus.dll but was not handled in user code

Additional information: Cannot get entity 'customers' because it is not of type TopicDescription.

I see the portal won't let me create a Queue and Topic of the same name, which I wasn't expecting.

I don't care to first check for an existing Queue with the same name, is there a better way?