'const' vs 'static readonly'

posted by  jhorra (5)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I'm a big fan of reusing code whenever and wherever possible.  A long time ago, I wrote an assembly that provided common methods and data to some applications I was writing.  When I first wrote the assembly, I exposedthe common data as public fields decorated with the const keyword, as shown in the example below.public class HelperData{    public const Int32 Iterations = 5;}When I used the field, in my application, I saw the expected results, and checked in my code.The value of HelperData.Iterations is