Understanding CLS Data Types in Visual Basic .NET and C#
When working with data, such as setting or retrieving values from a form, you must normally take that information and either manipulate it or store it temporarily before you persist it to a database or a file.In C# and Visual Basic .NET, you use variables to store information. Each variable that you declare is of a certain type, which is defined by the rules of the common type system (CTS). The CTS guarantees type safety between different languages, which was unheard of before .NET. That means when you use a String data type in C#, it's the same String data type that you use in Visual Basic .NET and COBOL .NET.When I talk about different .NET languages, I mean that a language is considered a .NET language because it follows the rules of the Common Language Specification (CLS). The CTS exists in the CLS, which ensures type safety across all languages that have a .NET suffix. The allowable data types, their language-specific syntax, their CLS type, and their value ranges are listed in Table 8.1.
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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days
By
Jason Beres
Publisher
: Sams Publishing
Pub Date
: January 14, 2003
ISBN
: 0-672-32421-0
Pages
: 696
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer application. The Visual Studio .NET development environment is the most comprehensive developer tool ever created, putting that together with the .NET Frameworks' Class Libraries, the developer has everything he or she needs to get up-to-speed on Microsoft's latest revolution in application development. This book will guide the developer through using the VS .NET IDE, the Visual Basic .NET and C# language, and the supporting tools available from Microsoft to create Windows and Web-based applications. The market is full of books that pretty much say the same thing, which is already available in the help files, the author of this book has written and deployed over a dozen successful applications using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. All of his expertise and experience is used to give you the most comprehensive title on using Visual Studio .NET.