In C#, should I use string.Empty or String.Empty or “” to intitialize a string?

Question

In C#, I want to initialize a string value with an empty string.

How should I do this? What is the right way, and why?

string willi = string.Empty;
         


        

Answer 1

I was just looking at some code and this question popped into my mind which I had read some time before. This is certainly a question of readability.

Consider the following C# code...

(customer == null) ? "" : customer.Name

vs

(customer == null) ? string.empty : customer.Name

I personally find the latter less ambiguous and easier to read.

As pointed out by others the actual differences are negligible.