What is the difference between String and string in C#?

Question

Example (note the case):

string s = \"Hello world!\";
String s = \"Hello world!\";

What are

Answer 1

I prefer the capitalized .NET types (rather than the aliases) for formatting reasons. The .NET types are colored the same as other object types (the value types are proper objects, after all).

Conditional and control keywords (like if, switch, and return) are lowercase and colored dark blue (by default). And I would rather not have the disagreement in use and format.

Consider:

String someString; 
string anotherString;