Type Fundamentals
Types are the building block of every CLR program. Once developers decide how to partition a project into one or more assemblies, most of their time is spent thinking about how their types will work and how their types will interrelate. Programming languages such as C# and VB.NET may have several constructs for expressing types (e.g., classes, structs, enums, etc.), but ultimately all of these constructs map down to a CLR type definition.
A CLR type is a named, reusable abstraction. The description of a CLR type resides in the metadata of a CLR module. That module will also contain any CIL or native code required to make the type work. CLR type names have three parts: an assembly name, an optional namespace prefix, and a local ...
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