Summary
This chapter has described how to define and implement regular value types, including cases in which a regular value type inherits from another regular value type or supports an IDL interface. Other types that can be used as part of an inheritance hierarchy—abstract valuetype and abstract interface—are also briefly described.
Other special features of value types are not covered in this chapter; specifically, transmission of value graphs and transmission of custom value types are not discussed.
The transmission of value graphs is a useful feature for programmers who want to transmit large, complex graphs of objects. Value types support an optimized encoding to minimize the overhead of transmitting value graphs.
The transmission of custom ...
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