C# naming convention for constants

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private const int THE_ANSWER = 42;

private const int theAnswer = 42;

Personally I think with modern IDEs we should go with camelCase as ALL_CAPS looks strange. What do you think?

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The recommended naming and capitalization convention is to use PascalCasing for constants (Microsoft has a tool named StyleCop that documents all the preferred conventions and can check your source for compliance - though it is a little bit too anally retentive for many people's tastes). e.g.

private const int TheAnswer = 42;

The Pascal capitalization convention is also documented in Microsoft's Framework Design Guidelines.

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const MY_CONSTANT = "some-value";

This will work in pretty much all browsers except IE 8, 9 and 10. Some may also need strict mode enabled.

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Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability.

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