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title: "What is the difference between static and readonly in c#?"  
description: "What is the difference between static and readonly in c#?"  
author: "Pradeep kumar Patel"  
published: 2019-10-29  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/82424/what-is-the-difference-between-static-and-readonly-in-c-sharp  
category: "programming language"  
tags: ["c#", ".net programming"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the difference between static and readonly in c#?

What is the [difference](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/398/difference-between-object-type-and-var-type) between [static](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12098/the-static-keyword-the-static-methods) and [readonly](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1419/how-can-i-make-the-wpf-datagrid-cells-readonly) in c#?


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