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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours
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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours

by James Foxall
August 2003
Beginner
600 pages
12h 55m
English
Sams
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Common Type System

The Common Type System in the common language runtime is the component that defines how data types are declared and used. The fact that the common language runtime can support cross-language integration to the level it does is largely because of the Common Type System. In the past, each language used its own data types and managed data in its own way. This made it very difficult for applications developed in different languages to communicate, because no standard way existed in which to pass data between them.

The Common Type System ensures that all .NET applications use the same data types, provides for self-describing type information (called metadata), and controls all the data manipulation mechanisms so that data is handled ...

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