How to distinguish properties from constants if they both use PascalCasing for naming?

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Published on 2010-05-07T14:10:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 14:18 UTC
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As stated in the framework design guidelines and the WWW in general, the current guideline is to name your constants like this

LastTemplateIndex
as opposed to
LAST_TEMPLATE_INDEX

With the PascalCasing approach, how do you differentiate between a Property and a Constant.
ErrorCodes.ServerDown is fine. But what about private constants within your class ? I use quite a lot of them for naming magic numbers.. or for expected values in my unit tests and so on.

The ALL_CAPS style helps me know that it is a constant .

_testApp.SelectTemplate(LAST_TEMPLATE_INDEX);

*Disclosure: I have been using the SCREAMING_CAPS style for a while for constants + I find it more readable than squishedTogetherPascalCasedName. It actually STANDS_OUT in a block of text*

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