Common Type System (CTS)
As stated, the CLR enables multiple languages to use the same base functionality provided by the Base Class Libraries of the .NET framework. This is possible due to another technology inside the framework. This technology is CTS and it is responsible for providing development languages with a base collection of data types to ensure that all .NET-based languages can use and manipulate the same types of data.
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