Best practice static class or static variables.

[ESTAN]

Hi, I have a question about static. I have the following class: public class Members { static public string Administrator = "A"; } Because I would mark the variable Administrator as a Const, I changed the class to the following: static public class Members { public const string Administrator = "A"; } In my eyes, the behavior is the same in accessing the variable, only that you are not able to change the Variable. Is this correct? Or do I need to use the keyword readonly instead of const? Than I would have: public class Members { static public readonly string Administrator = "A"; } So, help me out by saying what is the best practice here. Thanks.

[Christian Graus]

The difference between read only and const is that one can be set in the constructor ( from memory ) A static class is syntactic sugar, the compiler just barfs if any non static elements exist in there. I use it, because it makes my intentions clear, but it really don't actually give you anything.

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