global const?

[Steve]

Hi All,

I'm new to C# so bear with me. I have a public string const that I
need to be visible within any class within my namespace so I'll have
one place to maintain the string value and have changes affect all
classes.

What is the preferred way to do this?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Colby Africa]

I would look at string resources first, but you could do something
like:

public static readonly string MyConstant = "my constant";

You could implement a containing class for the above called
StringConstants and access the static constant via
StringConstants.MyConstant.

Colby

 

[Chris Shepherd]

I'm new to C# so bear with me. I have a public string const that I
need to be visible within any class within my namespace so I'll have
one place to maintain the string value and have changes affect all
classes.

What is the preferred way to do this?

Mark it internal inside a class in that namespace?


Chris.

 

[Peter Duniho]

Hi All,

I'm new to C# so bear with me. I have a public string const that I
need to be visible within any class within my namespace so I'll have
one place to maintain the string value and have changes affect all
classes.

What is the preferred way to do this?

Well, you could create a class with a static member representing the string:

class Globals
{
private static string _strFoo;

public static string Foo
{
get { return _strFoo; }
set { _strFoo = value; }
}
}

Then you'd refer to the string as Globals.Foo.

You could make the class "static" also, if all it would contain are
static members.

Pete

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Steve,

Well, if all of the classes in the namespace are in the same assembly,
then you can mark the constant as internal.

However, if your classes in the namespace are spread across separate
assemblies, then you will have to declare the constant as public, so that
outside of your declaring assembly, the constant can be seen. Of course,
that means that anyone anywhere can see the constant, not just the members
of that namespace.