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Programming in the .NET Environment
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Programming in the .NET Environment

by Damien Watkins, Mark Hammond, Brad Abrams
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 16m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2. The Type System

Chapter 1 provided a high-level overview of the issues involved in building distributed systems. It introduced a solution to these issues, the .NET Framework, and used a simple “Hello World” example to highlight the language interoperability offered by the .NET Framework. But, as is so often the case, the devil lies in the details. Chapters 2 through 4 describe in more depth the three CLR subsystems: the type system (described in this chapter) and the metadata and execution systems (described in Chapters 3 and 4, respectively).

As noted in Chapter 1, the facilities provided by the type, metadata, and execution systems are not new. However, the CLR does provide functionality in addition to the services provided by other ...

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