3.2. System namespace

The System namespace is the root namespace that contains the fundamental types of the .NET Framework. This namespace contains the Object class that is the root of the inheritance hierarchy, primitive and extended types, and many other classes. Indeed, there are almost 100 classes to handle exceptions, support runtime execution, application domains, garbage collection, and so on.

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