what is the difference between String and string

[Green]

Hi,
I am reading about an article of user control at the following site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...guide/html/cpconexposingpageletproperties.asp
and i notice that in this article, they declare variant using String and
string, what is the difference? Is this the intention Microsoft want to do?

Thanks very much.

 

[Marina]

'string' is an alias for 'String'. So they are equivalent.

 

[Martin Dechev]

Hi,

The fully qualified name of the .NET Framework class is System.String (see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-US/cpref/html/frlrfSystemStringClassTopic.asp).

In C# there is a keyword string
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/csref/html/vclrfString.asp), that
is simply an alias for System.String.

In VB if you leave Option Strict to be off you can write it in whichever
case you like and it will compile. eg string, String, STRING, sTRING,
sTrInG, STRiNG etc

Hope this helps
Martin

 

[Jonathan Allen]

In VB if you leave Option Strict to be off you can write it in whichever

case you like and it will compile. eg string, String, STRING, sTRING,
sTrInG, STRiNG etc

Actually VB doesn't care even if you do have Option Strict On, VB is totally
case insensitive. This means your C# classes cannot have two methods that
differ only by case if you want to use them from a VB application. (There is
a CLS rule about this.)