.net - Best practice for structuring/grouping a collection of string constant in VB.NET? -

i wau organize , group collection of strings in same way enum. name used in code , value. since enums can created integrals, this:

**public structure somestrings     public shared readonly property something1 string                       return "something1"                     end     end property     public shared readonly property something2 color                     return "something2"         end     end property end structure** 

is there better way it?

is there better way?

yes, use shared readonly fields instead of properties. can proper ide auto-completion real enums using undocumented xml doc tag:

''' <completionlist cref="somestrings"/> public structure somestrings     public shared readonly something1 string = "something1"     ' etc. end structure 

for more details, refer previous answer explaining feature.