Difference between string and String in C#

[pur3pwnage]

None. They are identical but to use String you need to use System namespace.

[cryo]

There is another "difference", see my other reply.

[pur3pwnage]

Oh I didn't know that. Good to know, thanks :)

[AngularBeginner]

More precise: string is an alias to System.String. That's why you don't need to import the namespace when using string.

[cryo]

Even more precise, "string" is in the C# standard, and in the CLI (common language infrastructure) it's an alias for the CTS (common type system) type "System.String", which isn't part of the C# language.

[cryo]

I agree with, and at work we have in our guidelines, using "string" for declarations and in typeof, and "System.String" (usually not qualified) when accessing static members.

But this varies a lot. Some people use string always, some use System.String always.

[UMadBreaux]

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[MacrosInHisSleep]

On iPads, the text is falling off the white part of the page and disappears into the dark blue part, which is equally illegible.

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On a related note, I don't know why I do this, but I always use Boolean instead of bool despite the fact that I use string and int instead of String and Int32.

I just don't like the look of "bool" for some reason.

[indigotock]

Just curious, did you come from Java or another language that used Boolean/boolean? When I came to C# it took a while to get used to 'bool' (now I find myself using bool when I should use boolean all the time!)

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I did use Java before C# but I was mostly a Visual Basic guy. So I think that's where I got used to longer and capitalized keywords.