Differentiate between const and static readonly

[KALLIYAN]

I want to know the actual differentiation between keywords 'const' and 'static readonly' in Csharp. I not able to note down points which are understandable to differentiate between the const and static readonly. I am not that good at software programming although I have studied Java earlier.

[Zecho]

Even I was confused about the differentiation between the const and static readonly. I was not able to understand what is const and static readonly. To a highlight a very basic difference const and static readonly is that the const field's value is initialized at complile time while that of a static readonly field's value is initialized at run time in C sharp.

[Modifier]

C# differentiates between static readonly and const according to the time during which their individual values are set. Incase of const its field is set at the time of compiling the code and incase of static readonly its value is initialized at runtime which is after compiling the code. This thus differentiates between const and static readonly in C#.

[Praetor]

There is not much to actually differentiate between the two except the very obvious difference where a static readonly value can be altered inside the class where it is being declared. But for const value cannot be altered at all. This is because const value is set during the compilation time whereas for a static readonly the value is during the run-time. This the difference between the two in Csharp.