How to handle multiple global constants in an application

Posted on: 2012-10-22

The best way to have something organized and having constants in a single place is to have a class that will have inner class. This way, you can organize by theme your constants.

public static class GlobalConstants { 
  public static class Division1 { 
    public const string Const1 = "123"; 
    public const string Const2 = "qwe"; 
    public const string Const3 = "asdfgh";
   }

  public static class Division2 { 
    public const string Const1 = "123"; 
  } 
} 

Of course, it's always better to have your constant in the class that they are more related. For example, the default value for a specific property of a class should be directly inside this class. But, for global constants that are used across the application, than having a global constants class can do the job.