string.empty

Hi,

When initializing newly declared variables is it any different to say

string myString = ""

versus

string myString = string.Empty;

If there is an advantage/disadvantage to one way over the other, what might that be?

Thanks

They're programatically identical. I think string.empty may be a few nanoseconds faster. You could always write a benchmarker and check how long it takes to assign 100,000 strings to "" as opposed to string.emptyand tell us about it :)

FXCOP advises that String.Empty should be used in preference to assigning an empty string.

This would summarize that:

http://codebetter.com/blogs/brendan.tompkins/archive/2003/10/14/2585.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2003/04/22/49997.aspx

We've already spent more time discussing this than the entire world would save if it every application was instantly converted from "" to string.Empty.

trying to understand the rules I read so far, a string doesn't actually get assigned a new value, but instead is destroyed and then a new one created with the new value.

So, from the links, it would seem that the string = "" would be destroyed when it was set to a new value, and since the string.Empty is never created as an object, there would be no destruction of it, prior to (re)assignment.

Anyway, sounds like it is trivial, so I won't worry about it.