Pascal Case in C# properties

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Which one do you choose and why:

public class User
{
    public long UserID { get; set; }
}

public class User
{
    public long UserId { get; set; }
}

And also as parameters:

public void DoSomething(long userId) { }
public void DoSomething(long userID) { }
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BoltClock On BEST ANSWER

The conventions make it very clear to choose UserId and userId respectively (emphasis mine):

The two abbreviations that can be used in identifiers are ID and OK. In Pascal-cased identifiers they should appear as Id, and Ok. If used as the first word in a camel-cased identifier, they should appear as id and ok, respectively.

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Dessus On

For Id, its short for Identifier, and not an acronym; It makes sense to make it lower case after the first letter.