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The Empty String in C#

I recently posed the following question to my team:

Which representation of the empty string do we prefer for our project?:

A) ""

B) string.Empty

I brought this question up because we decided to use StyleCop Analyzers, which has a rule encouraging developers to prefer string.Empty over "". But rather than just blindly following what the linter…