Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

.NET Framework Primitive Reference Types

The .NET Framework 4.0 ships with tons of reference types exposed by the Base Class Library and that cover most needs. However, there is a bunch of reference types you will often use in the development process that lots of other reference types derive from. Table 4.4 shows a list of the most common reference types.

Table 4.4 Most Common Built-In Reference Types in .NET Framework

Of course there are a lot of other reference types that you can use when developing real-life applications, and most of them are discussed in subsequent chapters of the book; however, the ones listed in Table 4.3 provide the basis ...