How to "extend" a class so its variables can return a prefix with the value

Question

First of all sorry for the confusing title, i could find the exact words to describe the situation. But its easy to understand with an example.

We have a static class that holds the table names as a catalog like this:

   public static class Tables
    {
            public const string Employees= "DBEmploy1";
            public const string Sales = "Sale1";
            (...etc)
    }

And use them in our code like this:

string sql="select name, surname from " + Tables.Employees + " where code='1'"

But sometimes we need to prefix the database connection or another prefix/suffix to the tables. The current solution is to declare a second Table catalog:

public static class CurrentDB1Prefix="[databasex].dbo."

public static class Tables
        {
                public const string Employees= "DBEmploy1";
                public const string Sales = "Sale1";
                (...etc)
        }
public static class TablesP
        {
                public static readonly string Employees= CurrentDB1Prefix + Employees;
                public static readonly string Sales = CurrentDB1Prefix + Sales;
                (...etc)
        }

And use them in our code like:

string sql="select name, surname from " + TablesP.Employees + " where code='1'"

To save effort maintaining 2 table list we would like to do something like this:

 public static class CurrentDB1Prefix="[databasex].dbo."
public static class Tables
{
                    public const string Employees= "DBEmploy1";
                    public const string Sales = "Sale1";
                    (...etc)
}
public static class TablesP
{
  //this would return the above Table class variables with the prefixes somehow
  return CurrentDB1Prefix + Table.TableVariablex;
}

How can this be done? Or some approximation as usable as this?

Answer 1

Don't use static and don't use const. Make the values runtime-changable by converting the fields to properties. Like this:

public class Tables
{
  public string CurrentPrefix = ...;
  public string Employees { get { return CurrentPrefix  + "DBEmploy1" };
  //(...etc)
}