Understanding the Common Type System
The CTS sets forth the guidelines for data type safety in .NET.
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In the past, there were no rules for type safety across execution runtimes, hence the general protection fault (GPF) and blue screen of death errors that could occur when running applications. The culprit behind those meltdowns was the overlapping of memory by data types. This was a common occurrence in Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 98. When a Visual Basic developer deployed a new application, fingers had to be crossed to make sure that the data types and memory access between the newly installed DLLs and the existing ones on the system mingled happily. Most of the time they did, but when they didn't, errors occurred. |
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