What's the best way to store a group of constants that my program uses? [closed]

Answer 1

What I like to do is the following (but make sure to read to the end to use the proper type of constants):

internal static class ColumnKeys
{
    internal const string Date = "Date";
    internal const string Value = "Value";
    ...
}

Read this to know why const might not be what you want. Possible type of constants are:

• const fields. Do not use across assemblies (public or protected) if value might change in future because the value will be hardcoded at compile-time in those other assemblies. If you change the value, the old value will be used by the other assemblies until they are re-compiled.
• static readonly fields
• static property without set