Building e-Commerce Sites with the .NET Framework

Strings

The .NET Framework represents strings as Unicode characters. In C#, the keyword string is an alias for System.String. Therefore, the following declarations are equivalent in C#:

string sMyString = "Some string value";

System.String sAnotherString = "Some other string value";

Because the keyword string is an alias for System.String, strings are technically reference types in .NET. The == and != operators are overloaded regarding strings, so comparison of string values is more intuitive.

One benefit of basing the string type on the System.String class is that you have access to a rich set of static methods for manipulating and comparing strings. Table A.3 shows some of the common String object methods, a description of their use, and ...