>>Hi everybody,
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>>I've defined this constant in the class declaration
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>>public const String EncodingXMLString
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>>but I can not access it by ClassName.ConstName
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>>I can change it to be a readonly static property instead, but why I can not use it as a constant? I see a comment by another colleague on another readonly property
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>Because your definition does not make it a constant
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>A constant expression is an expression that can be fully evaluated at compile time
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>>// Huh! Can't use const here - weird.
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>>Indeed weird - do you see what may be wrong?
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>>Thanks in advance.

So, what is wrong exactly here - why it can not be evaluated in compile time?

internal static readonly String EncodingXMLString = @"<?xml version = ""1.0"" encoding=""Windows-1252"" standalone=""yes""?>";

I already switched to the readonly property since constant didn't work.