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Understanding Common Type System in .NET

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Published: 08 Jan 2008

Abstract
In this article Suresh examines the concept of Common Type System (CTS) and the purpose behind it. He also discusses the aspects of value and reference types. The article ends with a short explanation of Common Language Specification and some of the common points relevant to CTS.

by Suresh Kumar Goudampally
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Introduction

The Common Type System (CTS) defines how types are declared, used, and managed in the runtime, and is also an important part of the runtime's support for cross-language integration.

CTS Provides the data types, values, object types. This helps developers to develop applications in different languages, where .NET languages share CTS means all the types used in applications share the same types defined under CLI.

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Title: CTS/CLS
Name: Sonali Joshi
Date: 2010-03-30 12:12:24 AM
Comment:
A really nice articla. it helps me to understand the difference between CLS/CTS also how the concepts works.
Thanks a lot :)

Title: CTS
Name: Surendra singh
Date: 2009-04-14 6:05:41 AM
Comment:
This helps me to understand CTS in a easy way.It's realy a very helpful to understand.
thanks

Title: CTS
Name: SHOBANA
Date: 2009-03-25 7:20:50 AM
Comment:
This article is Really helped to me for understand cts. Thank u very much..,

Title: cts
Name: Deepak
Date: 2009-03-06 1:14:28 AM
Comment:
u have helped me to understand cts.Thnks

Title: COMMON LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION
Name: JAYSHREE DONGA
Date: 2009-02-10 5:45:58 AM
Comment:
THIS ARTICLE IS REALLY VERY NICE

Title: comman language specification
Name: mira
Date: 2008-12-27 1:21:58 AM
Comment:
there is very few discription about the CLS

Title: Hi
Name: Sunny
Date: 2008-05-31 3:44:39 AM
Comment:
Superb, great work.........

Title: Good Notes
Name: Babitha
Date: 2008-03-07 11:53:18 AM
Comment:
Very Nice.

Title: Hi
Name: Suresh Kumar
Date: 2008-01-31 7:05:12 AM
Comment:
Hi shivaprasad,
can i know and who r u and

for which company you are working for?

Regards
Suresh Kumar Goudampally

Title: Good notes
Name: s.k.shivaprasad
Date: 2008-01-31 4:32:59 AM
Comment:
Good work! I would like to see more articles from you in the future

thanks,
s.k.shivaprasad
Software Engineer.

Title: Understanding CTS
Name: Madhavi G
Date: 2008-01-30 12:04:55 AM
Comment:
Good One, though i am from testing, was able to understand, keep posting such articles.

Title: CTS
Name: Nitin Sharma
Date: 2008-01-11 2:01:57 AM
Comment:
Good One..!! :-)

Nitin Sharma
Software Engineer

Title: Good Article
Name: Joydip Kanjilal
Date: 2008-01-10 11:50:31 AM
Comment:
Good work! I would like to see more articles from you in the future.

Thanks,

Joydip

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