Common Type System (CTS)

The CTS specifies certain guidelines for declaring, using, and managing types at runtime. It is an integral part of the runtime for supporting cross-language communication. The functions performed by the CTS are as follows:

• Helps in cross-language communication, type safety, and high performance execution of code by establishing a framework.
• Supports object-oriented model for implementation of different programming languages
• Specifies guidelines for different languages to follow, ensuring proper interaction between objects of different languages
• Supports primitive data types, such as Boolean, Byte, Char, and Int32, that are used in the process of development of an application