How to define constants in Visual C like define in C

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In C you can define constants like this   define NUMBER 9   so that wherever NUMBER appears in the program it is replaced with 9   But Visual C  doesn t do this   How is it done

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What is the  Visual C    There is no such thing  Just C   or  NET C      Also  Python s convention for constants CONSTANT NAME is not very common in C   We are usually using CamelCase according to MSDN standards  e g  public const string ExtractedMagicString    vs2019       Source  Defining constants in C

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static class Constants       public const int MIN LENGTH   5      public const int MIN WIDTH    5       public const int MIN HEIGHT   6        elsewhere public CBox         length   Constants MIN LENGTH       width    Constants MIN WIDTH       height   Constants MIN HEIGHT

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Check How to  Define Constants in C  on MSDN      In C  the  define preprocessor   directive cannot be used to define   constants in the way that is typically   used in C and C

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public const int NUMBER   9    You d need to put it in a class somewhere  and the usage would be ClassName NUMBER

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You can t do this in C   Use a const int instead

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In C   per MSDN library  we have the  const  keyword that does the work of the   define  keyword in other languages        when the compiler encounters a constant identifier in C  source code  for example  months   it substitutes the literal value directly into the intermediate language  IL  code that it produces     https   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms173119 aspx    Initialize constants at time of declaration since there is no changing them   public const int cMonths   12

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in c language   define  e g    define counter 100   in assembly language  equ  e g   counter equ 100   in c  language  according to msdn refrence  You use  define to define a symbol  When you use the symbol as the expression that s passed to the  if directive  the expression will evaluate to true  as the following example shows     define DEBUG  The  define directive cannot be used to declare constant values as is typically done in C and C    Constants in C  are best defined as static members of a class or struct  If you have several such constants  consider creating a separate  Constants  class to hold them

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