What is the difference between String and string in C

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Example  note the case    string s    Hello world    String s    Hello world      What are the guidelines for the use of each  And what are the differences

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it is common practice to declare a variable using C  keywords  In fact  every C  type has an equivalent in  NET  As another example  short and int in C  map to Int16 and Int32 in  NET  So  technically there is no difference between string and String  but  In C   string is an alias for the String class in  NET framework

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There are many  e g  Jeffrey Richter in his book CLR Via C   who are saying that there is no difference between System String and string  and also System Int32 and int  but we must discriminate a little deeper to really squeeze the juice out of this question so we can get all the nutritional value out of it  write better code    A  They are the Same      to the compiler  to the developer   We know  1 and eventually achieve autopilot     B  They are Different in Famework and in Non-C  Contexts  Different      to OTHER languages that are NOT C  in an optimized CIL  was MSIL  context  the  NET VM assembly language  in a platform-targeted context -- the  NET Framework or Mono or any CIL-type area in a book targeting multiple  NET Languages  such as VB NET  F   etc     So  the true answer is that it is only because C  has to co-own the  NET space with other languages that this question even exists   C  To Summarize     You use string and int and the other C  types in a C -only targeted audience  ask the question  who is going to read this code  or use this library   For your internal company  if you only use C   then stick to the C  types      and you use System String and System Int32 in a multilingual or framework targeted audience  when C  is not the only audience   For your internal organization  if you also use VB NET or F  or any other  NET language  or develop libraries for consumption by customers who may  then you should use the  Frameworky  types in those contexts so that everyone can understand your interface  no matter what universe they are from   What is Klingon for System String  anyway    HTH

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As pointed out  they are the same thing and string is just an alias to String   For what it s worth  I use string to declare types - variables  properties  return values and parameters  This is consistent with the use of other system types - int  bool  var etc  although Int32 and Boolean are also correct    I use String when using the static methods on the String class  like String Split   or String IsNullOrEmpty    I feel that this makes more sense because the methods belong to a class  and it is consistent with how I use other static methods

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string is an alias in C  for System String  So technically  there is no difference   It s like int vs  System Int32   As far as guidelines  it s generally recommended to use string any time you re referring to an object   e g    string place    world     Likewise  I think it s generally recommended to use String if you need to refer specifically to the class   e g   string greet   String Format  Hello  0     place     This is the style that Microsoft tends to use in their examples   It appears that the guidance in this area may have changed  as StyleCop now enforces the use of the C  specific aliases

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String is the class of string  If you remove System namespace from using statements  you can see that String has gone but string is still here  string is keyword for String  Like  int and Int32 short and Int16 long and Int64    So the keywords are just some words that uses a class  These keywords are specified by C  so Microsoft  because C  is Microsoft s   Briefly  there s no difference  Using string or String  That doesn t matter  They are same

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String   Represent a class  string   Represent an alias     It s just a coding convention from microsoft

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A string is a sequential collection of characters that is used to represent text   A String object is a sequential collection of System Char objects that represent a string  a System Char object corresponds to a UTF-16 code unit   The value of the String object is the content of the sequential collection of System Char objects  and that value is immutable  that is  it is read-only     For more information about the immutability of strings  see the Immutability and the StringBuilder class section in msdn    The maximum size of a String object in memory is 2GB  or about 1 billion characters   Note   answer is extracted from msdn help section  You can see the full content here in msdn String Class topic under Remarks section

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I d just like to add this to lfousts answer  from Ritchers book      The C  language specification states     As a matter of style  use of the keyword is favored over   use of the complete system type name     I disagree with the language specification  I prefer   to use the FCL type names and completely avoid the primitive type names  In fact  I wish that   compilers didn   t even offer the primitive type names and forced developers to use the FCL   type names instead  Here are my reasons          I   ve seen a number of developers confused  not knowing whether to use string   or String in their code  Because in C  string  a keyword  maps exactly to   System String  an FCL type   there is no difference and either can be used  Similarly    I   ve heard some developers say that int represents a 32-bit integer when the application   is running on a 32-bit OS and that it represents a 64-bit integer when the application   is running on a 64-bit OS  This statement is absolutely false  in C   an int always maps   to System Int32  and therefore it represents a 32-bit integer regardless of the OS the   code is running on  If programmers would use Int32 in their code  then this potential   confusion is also eliminated    In C   long maps to System Int64  but in a different programming language  long   could map to an Int16 or Int32  In fact  C   CLI does treat long as an Int32    Someone reading source code in one language could easily misinterpret the code   s   intention if he or she were used to programming in a different programming language    In fact  most languages won   t even treat long as a keyword and won   t compile code   that uses it    The FCL has many methods that have type names as part of their method names  For   example  the BinaryReader type offers methods such as ReadBoolean  ReadInt32    ReadSingle  and so on  and the System Convert type offers methods such as   ToBoolean  ToInt32  ToSingle  and so on  Although it   s legal to write the following   code  the line with float feels very unnatural to me  and it   s not obvious that the line is   correct   BinaryReader br   new BinaryReader       float val   br ReadSingle       OK  but feels unnatural Single val   br ReadSingle       OK and feels good    Many programmers that use C  exclusively tend to forget that other programming   languages can be used against the CLR  and because of this  C -isms creep into the   class library code  For example  Microsoft   s FCL is almost exclusively written in C  and   developers on the FCL team have now introduced methods into the library such as   Array   s GetLongLength  which returns an Int64 value that is a long in C  but not   in other languages  like C   CLI   Another example is System Linq Enumerable   s   LongCount method       I didn t get his opinion before I read the complete paragraph

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In C   string is the short version of System String  String   They basically mean the same thing   It s just like bool and Boolean  not much difference

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String  A String object is called immutable  read-only  because its value cannot be modified once it has been created  Methods that appear to modify a String object actually return a new String object that contains the modification  If it is necessary to modify the actual contents of a string-like object  string  The string type represents a sequence of zero or more Unicode characters  string is an alias for String in the  NET Framework  string is the intrinsic C  datatype  and is an alias for the system provided type  System String   The C  specification states that as a matter of style the keyword  string  is preferred over the full system type name  System String  or String   Although string is a reference type  the equality operators     and     are defined to compare the values of string objects  not references  This makes testing for string equality more intuitive  For example    Difference between string  amp  String    The string is usually used for declaration while String is used for accessing static string methods You can use  string  do declare fields  properties etc that use the predefined type  string   since the C  specification tells me this is good style  You can use  String  to use system-defined methods  such as String Compare etc  They are originally defined on  System String   not  string    string  is just an alias in this case  You can also use  String  or  System Int32  when communicating with other system  especially if they are CLR-compliant  i e  - if I get data from elsewhere  I d de-serialize it into a System Int32 rather than an  int   if the origin by definition was something else than a C  system

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In case it s useful to really see there is no difference between string and System String   var method1   typeof MyClass  GetMethod  TestString1   GetMethodBody   GetILAsByteArray    var method2   typeof MyClass  GetMethod  TestString2   GetMethodBody   GetILAsByteArray            public string TestString1         string str    Hello World        return str     public string TestString2         String str    Hello World        return str      Both produce exactly the same IL byte array     0  114  107  0  0  112  10  6  11  43  0  7  42

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String stands for System String and it is a  NET Framework type  string is an alias in the C  language for  System String  Both of them are compiled to System String in IL  Intermediate Language   so there is no difference  Choose what you like and use that  If you code in C   I d prefer string as it s a C  type alias and well-known by C  programmers   I can say the same about  int  System Int32  etc

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string is an alias  or shorthand  of System String  That means  by typing string we meant System String  You can read more in think link   string  is an alias shorthand of System String

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string is a reserved word  but String is just a class name   This means that string cannot be used as a variable name by itself   If for some reason you wanted a variable called string  you d see only the first of these compiles   StringBuilder String   new StringBuilder        compiles StringBuilder string   new StringBuilder        doesn t compile    If you really want a variable name called string you can use   as a prefix   StringBuilder  string   new StringBuilder      Another critical difference  Stack Overflow highlights them differently

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Just for the sake of completeness  here s a brain dump of related information    As others have noted  string is an alias for System String  Assuming your code using String compiles to System String  i e  you haven t got a using directive for some other namespace with a different String type   they compile to the same code  so at execution time there is no difference whatsoever  This is just one of the aliases in C   The complete list is  object   System Object string   System String bool     System Boolean byte     System Byte sbyte    System SByte short    System Int16 ushort   System UInt16 int      System Int32 uint     System UInt32 long     System Int64 ulong    System UInt64 float    System Single double   System Double decimal  System Decimal char     System Char  Apart from string and object  the aliases are all to value types  decimal is a value type  but not a primitive type in the CLR  The only primitive type which doesn t have an alias is System IntPtr  In the spec  the value type aliases are known as  quot simple types quot   Literals can be used for constant values of every simple type  no other value types have literal forms available   Compare this with VB  which allows DateTime literals  and has an alias for it too   There is one circumstance in which you have to use the aliases  when explicitly specifying an enum s underlying type  For instance  public enum Foo   UInt32       Invalid public enum Bar   uint         Valid  That s just a matter of the way the spec defines enum declarations - the part after the colon has to be the integral-type production  which is one token of sbyte  byte  short  ushort  int  uint  long  ulong  char    as opposed to a type production as used by variable declarations for example  It doesn t indicate any other difference  Finally  when it comes to which to use  personally I use the aliases everywhere for the implementation  but the CLR type for any APIs  It really doesn t matter too much which you use in terms of implementation - consistency among your team is nice  but no-one else is going to care  On the other hand  it s genuinely important that if you refer to a type in an API  you do so in a language-neutral way  A method called ReadInt32 is unambiguous  whereas a method called ReadInt requires interpretation  The caller could be using a language that defines an int alias for Int16  for example  The  NET framework designers have followed this pattern  good examples being in the BitConverter  BinaryReader and Convert classes

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Image result for string vs String www javatpoint com  In C   string is an alias for the String class in  NET framework  In fact  every C  type has an equivalent in  NET  Another little difference is that if you use the String class  you need to import the System namespace  whereas you don t have to import namespace when using the string keyword

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It s a matter of convention  really   string just looks more like C C   style   The general convention is to use whatever shortcuts your chosen language has provided  int Int for Int32    This goes for  object  and decimal as well   Theoretically this could help to port code into some future 64-bit standard in which  int  might mean Int64  but that s not the point  and I would expect any upgrade wizard to change any int references to Int32 anyway just to be safe

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First of All  both string  amp  String   are not same   There is a difference  String is not a keyword and it can be used as Identifier whereas string is a keyword and cannot be used as Identifier   I am trying to explain with different example   First  when I put  string s    into Visual Studio and hover over it I get  without the color     That says that string is System String  right   The documentation is at https   msdn microsoft com en-us library 362314fe aspx  The second sentence says  string is an alias for String in the  NET Framework

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String  System String  is a class in the base class library  string  lower case  is a reserved work in C  that is an alias for System String  Int32 vs int is a similar situation as is Boolean vs  bool  These C  language specific keywords enable you to declare primitives in a style similar to C

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There is practically no difference  The C  keyword string maps to the  NET type System String - it is an alias that keeps to the naming conventions of the language

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string is equal to System String in VS2015 if you write this   System String str    Than compiler will show potential fix to optimize it and after applying that fixe it will look like this   string str

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System String is the  NET string class - in C  string is an alias for System String - so in use they are the same   As for guidelines I wouldn t get too bogged down and just use whichever you feel like - there are more important things in life and the code is going to be the same anyway   If you find yourselves building systems where it is necessary to specify the size of the integers you are using and so tend to use Int16  Int32  UInt16  UInt32 etc  then it might look more natural to use String - and when moving around between different  net languages it might make things more understandable - otherwise I would use string and int

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Yes  that s no difference between them  just like the bool and Boolean

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You don t need import namespace  using System   to use string because it is a global alias of System String   To know more about aliases you can check this link

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I prefer to use string because this type is used so much that I don t want the syntax highlighter blending it in with all the other classes  Although it is a class it is used more like a primitive therefore I think the different highlight colour is appropriate   If you right click on the string keyword and select Go to definition from the context menu it ll take you to the String class - it s just syntactic sugar but it improves readability imo

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string and String are identical in all ways  except the uppercase  S     There are no performance implications either way   Lowercase string is preferred in most projects due to the syntax highlighting

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There s a quote on this issue from Daniel Solis  book      All the predefined types  are mapped directly to   underlying  NET types  The C  type names  string  are simply aliases for the    NET types  String or System String   so using the  NET names works fine syntactically  although   this is discouraged  Within a C  program  you should use the C  names   rather than the  NET names

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As you already know string is just alias for System String  But what should I use  it just personal preference   In my case  I love to use string rather than use System String because String requires a namespace using System  or a full name System String    So I believe the alias  string was created for simplicity and I love it

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string is a shortcut for System String  The only difference is that you don  t need to reference to System String namespace  So would be better using string than String

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To be honest  in practice usually there is not difference between System String and string   All types in C  are objects and all derives from System Object class  One difference is that string is a C  keyword and String you can use as variable name  System String is conventional  NET name of this type and string is convenient C  name  Here is simple program which presents difference between System String and string   string a   new string new char      x    y    z      string b   new String new char      x    y    z      String c   new string new char      x    y    z      String d   new String new char      x    y    z      MessageBox Show  a GetType      typeof String   amp  amp  a GetType      typeof string   ToString        shows true MessageBox Show  b GetType      typeof String   amp  amp  b GetType      typeof string   ToString        shows true MessageBox Show  c GetType      typeof String   amp  amp  c GetType      typeof string   ToString        shows true MessageBox Show  d GetType      typeof String   amp  amp  d GetType      typeof string   ToString        shows true    JonSkeet in my compiler  public enum Foo   UInt32       is working  I ve Visual Studio 2015 Community

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declare a string variable with string but use the String class when accessing one of its static members   String Format     Variable   string name

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String  capital S  is a class in the  NET framework in the System namespace  The fully qualified name is System String  Whereas  the lower case string is an alias of System String  string str1   quot Hello quot   String str2    quot World  quot                Console WriteLine str1 GetType   FullName      System String Console WriteLine str2 GetType   FullName      System String

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There is one practical difference between string and String   nameof String      compiles nameof string      doesn t compile   This is because string is a keyword  an alias in this case  whereas String is a type   The same is true for the other aliases as well     Alias       Type                ----------- ------------------     bool        System Boolean       byte        System Byte          sbyte       System SByte         char        System Char          decimal     System Decimal       double      System Double        float       System Single        int         System Int32         uint        System UInt32        long        System Int64         ulong       System UInt64        object      System Object        short       System Int16         ushort      System UInt16        string      System String

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Against what seems to be common practice among other programmers  I prefer String over string  just to highlight the fact that String is a reference type  as Jon Skeet mentioned

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There is no difference between the two   You can use either of them in your code   System String is a class  reference type  defined the mscorlib in the namespace System  In other words  System String is a type in the CLR   string is a keyword in C

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Lower case string is an alias for System String  They are the same in C    There s a debate over whether you should use the System types  System Int32  System String  etc   types or the C  aliases  int  string  etc   I personally believe you should use the C  aliases  but that s just my personal preference

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Jeffrey Richter written      Another way to think of this is that the C  compiler automatically   assumes that you have the following using directives in all of your   source code files    using int   System Int32  using uint   System UInt32  using string   System String           I   ve seen a number of developers confused  not knowing whether to use   string or String in their code  Because in C  string  a keyword  maps   exactly to System String  an FCL type   there is no difference and   either can be used

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Coming late to the party  I use the CLR types 100  of the time  well  except if forced to use the C  type  but I don t remember when the last time that was     I originally started doing this years ago  as per the CLR books by Ritchie  It made sense to me that all CLR languages ultimately have to be able to support the set of CLR types  so using the CLR types yourself provided clearer  and possibly more  reusable  code   Now that I ve been doing it for years  it s a habit and I like the coloration that VS shows for the CLR types   The only real downer is that auto-complete uses the C  type  so I end up re-typing automatically generated types to specify the CLR type instead   Also  now  when I see  int  or  string   it just looks really wrong to me  like I m looking at 1970 s C code

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Using System types makes it easier to port between C  and VB Net  if you are into that sort of thing

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All the above is basically correct  One can check it  Just write a short method  public static void Main         var s    a string       compile it and open  exe with ildasm to see   method private hidebysig static void  Main string   args  cil managed      entrypoint      Code size       8  0x8     maxstack  1    locals init   0  string s    IL 0000   nop   IL 0001   ldstr       a string    IL 0006   stloc 0   IL 0007   ret      end of method Program  Main   then change var to string and String  compile  open with ildasm and see IL does not change  It also shows the creators of the language prefer just string when difining variables  spoiler  when calling members they prefer String

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string is just an alias for System String  The compiler will treat them identically   The only practical difference is the syntax highlighting as you mention  and that you have to write using System if you use String

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There is no difference between the two - string  however  appears to be the preferred option when considering other developers  source code

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string is an alias for String in the  NET Framework   Where  String  is in fact System String   I would say that they are interchangeable and there is no difference when and where you should use one or the other   It would be better to be consistent with which one you did use though   For what it s worth  I use string to declare types - variables  properties  return values and parameters  This is consistent with the use of other system types - int  bool  var etc  although Int32 and Boolean are also correct    I use String when using the static methods on the String class  like String Split   or String IsNullOrEmpty    I feel that this makes more sense because the methods belong to a class  and it is consistent with how I use other static methods

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New answer after 6 years and 5 months  procrastination    While string is a reserved C  keyword that always has a fixed meaning  String is just an ordinary identifier which could refer to anything  Depending on members of the current type  the current namespace and the applied using directives and their placement  String could be a value or a type distinct from global  System String   I shall provide two examples where using directives will not help     First  when String is a value of the current type  or a local variable    class MySequence lt TElement gt      public IEnumerable lt TElement gt  String   get  set       void Example           var test   String Format  Hello  0     DateTime Today DayOfWeek           The above will not compile because IEnumerable lt  gt  does not have a non-static member called Format  and no extension methods apply  In the above case  it may still be possible to use String in other contexts where a type is the only possibility syntactically  For example String local    Hi mum    could be OK  depending on namespace and using directives    Worse  Saying String Concat someSequence  will likely  depending on usings  go to the Linq extension method Enumerable Concat  It will not go to the static method string Concat     Secondly  when String is another type  nested inside the current type   class MyPiano     protected class String            void Example           var test1   String Format  Hello  0     DateTime Today DayOfWeek       String test2    Goodbye           Neither statement in the Example method compiles  Here String is always a piano string  MyPiano String  No member  static or not  Format exists on it  or is inherited from its base class   And the value  Goodbye  cannot be converted into it

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This YouTube video demonstrates practically how they differ  But now for a long textual answer  When we talk about  NET there are two different things one there is  NET framework and the other there are languages   C   VB NET etc  which use that framework    quot System String quot  a k a  quot String quot    capital  quot S quot   is a  NET framework data type while  quot string quot  is a C  data type   In short  quot String quot  is an alias   the same thing called with different names  of  quot string quot   So technically both the below code statements will give the same output  String s    quot I am String quot    or string s    quot I am String quot    In the same way  there are aliases for other c  data type as shown below - object  System Object  string  System String  bool  System Boolean  byte  System Byte  sbyte  System SByte  short  System Int16 and so on Now the million-dollar question from programmer s point of view So when to use  quot String quot  and  quot string quot   The first thing to avoid confusion use one of them consistently  But from best practices perspective when you do variable declaration it s good to use  quot string quot    small  quot s quot   and when you are using it as a class name then  quot String quot    capital  quot S quot   is preferred  In the below code the left-hand side is a variable declaration and it declared using  quot string quot   On the right-hand side  we are calling a method so  quot String quot  is more sensible  string s   String ToUpper

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JaredPar  a developer on the C  compiler and prolific SO user   wrote a great blog post on this issue  I think it is worth sharing here  It is a nice perspective on our subject   string vs  String is not a style debate           The keyword string has concrete meaning in C   It is the type System String which exists in the core runtime assembly  The runtime intrinsically understands this type and provides the capabilities developers expect for strings in  NET  Its presence is so critical to C  that if that type doesn   t exist the compiler will exit before attempting to even parse a line of code  Hence string has a precise  unambiguous meaning in C  code    The identifier String though has no concrete meaning in C   It is an identifier that goes through all the name lookup rules as Widget  Student  etc     It could bind to string or it could bind to a type in another assembly entirely whose purposes may be entirely different than string  Worse it could be defined in a way such that code like String s    quot hello quot   continued to compile    class TricksterString      void Example         String s    quot Hello World quot      Okay but probably not what you expect         class String     public static implicit operator String string s    gt  null     The actual meaning of String will always depend on name resolution  That means it depends on all the source files in the project and all the types defined in all the referenced assemblies  In short it requires quite a bit of context to know what it means  True that in the vast majority of cases String and string will bind to the same type  But using String still means developers are leaving their program up to interpretation in places where there is only one correct answer  When String does bind to the wrong type it can leave developers debugging for hours  filing bugs on the compiler team  and generally wasting time that could   ve been saved by using string  Another way to visualize the difference is with this sample  string s1   42     Errors 100  of the time   String s2   42     Might error  might not  depends on the code  Many will argue that while this is information technically accurate using String is still fine because it   s exceedingly rare that a codebase would define a type of this name  Or that when String is defined it   s a sign of a bad codebase            You   ll see that String is defined for a number of completely valid purposes  reflection helpers  serialization libraries  lexers  protocols  etc     For any of these libraries String vs  string has real consequences depending on where the code is used    So remember when you see the String vs  string debate this is about semantics  not style  Choosing string gives crisp meaning to your codebase  Choosing String isn   t wrong but it   s leaving the door open for surprises in the future   Note  I copy pasted most of the blog posts for archive reasons  I ignore some parts  so I recommend skipping and reading the blog post if you can

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String is not a keyword and it can be used as Identifier whereas string is a keyword and cannot be used as Identifier  And in function point of view both are same

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I prefer the capitalized  NET types  rather than the aliases  for formatting reasons  The  NET types are colored the same as other object types  the value types are proper objects  after all    Conditional and control keywords  like if  switch  and return  are lowercase and colored dark blue  by default   And I would rather not have the disagreement in use and format   Consider   String someString   string anotherString

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String refers to a string object which comes with various functions for manipulating the contained string   string refers to a primitive type   In C  they both compile to String but in other languages they do not so you should use String if you want to deal with String objects and string if you want to deal with literals

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string is short name of System String   String or System String is name of string in CTS Common Type System

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As far as I know  string is just an alias for System String  and similar aliases exist for bool  object  int    the only subtle difference is that you can use string without a  using System   directive  while String requires it  otherwise you should specify System String in full    About which is the best to use  I guess it s a matter of taste  Personally I prefer string  but I it s not a religious issue

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Both are same  But from coding guidelines perspective it s better to use string instead of String  This is what generally developers use  e g  instead of using Int32 we use int as int is alias to Int32  FYI    The keyword string is simply an alias for the predefined class System String     - C  Language Specification 4 2 3 http   msdn2 microsoft com En-US library aa691153 aspx

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One argument not mentioned elsewhere to prefer the pascal case String   System String is a reference type  and reference types names are pascal case by convention

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There is one difference - you can t use String without using System  beforehand

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It s been covered above  however  you can t use string in reflection  you must use String

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string is a keyword  and you can t use string as an identifier    String is not a keyword  and you can use it as an identifier   Example  string String    I am a string     The keyword string  is an alias for  System String aside from the keyword issue  the two are exactly  equivalent    typeof string     typeof String     typeof System String

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As the others are saying  they re the same   StyleCop rules  by default  will enforce you to use string as a C  code style best practice  except when referencing System String static functions  such as String Format  String Join  String Concat  etc

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Both are the same The difference is how you use it  Convention is   string is for variables   String is for calling other String class methods  Like   string fName    John   string lName    Smith    string fullName   String Concat fName lName    if  String IsNullOrEmpty fName       Console WriteLine  Enter first name

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Nice question  In simple words   string - datatype   String - class Name   Ex   string Name    tata     datatype is string   gt  Happy Compiler      and  String Name    tata      Unknown datatype   gt  Unhappy Compiler      Here is the thing  when you hover on String compiler says to use   System String Name    tata     Don t get confused   Hope this helps

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The best answer I have ever heard about using the provided type aliases in C  comes from Jeffrey Richter in his book CLR Via C   Here are his 3 reasons         I ve seen a number of developers confused  not knowing whether to use string or String in their code  Because in C  the string  a keyword  maps exactly to System String  an FCL type   there is no difference and either can be used    In C   long maps to System Int64  but in a different programming language  long could map to an Int16 or Int32  In fact  C   CLI does in fact treat long as an Int32  Someone reading source code in one language could easily misinterpret the code s intention if he or she were used to programming in a different programming language  In fact  most languages won t even treat long as a keyword and won t compile code that uses it    The FCL has many methods that have type names as part of their method names  For example  the BinaryReader type offers methods such as ReadBoolean  ReadInt32  ReadSingle  and so on  and the System Convert type offers methods such as ToBoolean  ToInt32  ToSingle  and so on  Although it s legal to write the following code  the line with float feels very unnatural to me  and it s not obvious that the line is correct       BinaryReader br   new BinaryReader       float val    br ReadSingle       OK  but feels unnatural Single val   br ReadSingle       OK and feels good   So there you have it  I think these are all really good points  I however  don t find myself using Jeffrey s advice in my own code  Maybe I am too stuck in my C  world but I end up trying to make my code look like the framework code

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There is no difference   The C  keyword string maps to the  NET type System String - it is an alias that keeps to the naming conventions of the language   Similarly  int maps to System Int32

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In the context of MSDN Documentation  String class is documented like any other data type  e g   XmlReader  StreamReader  in the BCL   And string is documented like a keyword  C  Reference  or like any basic C  language construct  e g   for  while  default    Reference

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C  is a language which is used together with the CLR   string is a type in C    System String is a type in the CLR   When you use C  together with the CLR string will be mapped to System String   Theoretically  you could implement a C -compiler that generated Java bytecode  A sensible implementation of this compiler would probably map string to java lang String in order to interoperate with the Java runtime library

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