Where Are We?
Types are the fundamental building blocks of a CLR program and make up the lion's share of a module's metadata. Each programming language maps its local constructs onto CLR types in language-specific ways. CLR types consist primarily of fields and methods; however, developers can call out the intended usage of a method in the metadata through the use of properties and events. To support object-oriented programming languages, developers can factor CLR types into hierarchies using both interfaces and base types. Developers spend most of their time defining new types in terms of existing types.
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