>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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>// 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.

Not directly relevant but, IAC, it is much safer to use a static readonly rather than a constant. If you reference a constant defined in one assembly in another then it is cast in stone at compile time. If you subsequently change that value other assemblies would still be using the old value unless recompiled.