CA1708Naming Enabled by default: No

Identifiers should differ by more than case

Description

Identifiers for namespaces, types, members, and parameters cannot differ only by case because languages that target the common language runtime are not required to be case-sensitive. For example, Visual Basic is a widely used case-insensitive language.

Cause

The names of two types, members, parameters, or fully qualified namespaces are identical when they're converted to lowercase.

By default, this rule only looks at externally visible types, members, and namespaces, but this is configurable.

How to fix violations

Select a name that's unique when it's compared to other identifiers in a case-insensitive manner.

Example

public class Class1
{
    protected string someName;
    public string SomeName => someName;
}

When to suppress

Do not suppress a warning from this rule. The library might not be usable in all available languages in .NET.

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