Functions of The Common Type System
- To establish a framework that helps enable cross-language integration, type safety, and high performance code execution.
- To provide an object-oriented model that supports the complete implementation of many programming languages.
- To define rules that languages must follow, which helps ensure that objects written in different languages can interact with each other.
- The CTS also defines the rules that ensures that the data types of objects written in various languages are able to interact with each other.
- The CTS also specifies the rules for type visibility and access to the members of a type, i.e. the CTS establishes the rules by which assemblies form scope for a type, and the Common Language Runtime enforces the visibility rules.
- The CTS defines the rules governing type inheritance, virtual methods and object lifetime.
- Languages supported by .NET can implement all or some common data types…
When rounding fractional values, the halfway-to-even ("banker's") method is used by default, throughout the Framework. Since version 2, "Symmetric Arithmetic Rounding" (round halves away from zero) is also available by programmer's option.
- it is used to communicate with other languages
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