Is String a primitive type?

Asked 2010-10-19T06:13:36.257

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I am curious about the string and primitive types. Article like this says string is primitive type. However second article on MSDN does not list string as primitive type.

However when I ran the code provided in second article, it displays String is not Primitive type.

Can any one guide me on this?

c# .net vb.net string primitive-types

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There is no "Microsoft" definition of what a primitive type is.

There are only definitions of primitive types in a given context.

The CLR defines primitive types as being nothing more than:
- System.Boolean
- System.Byte
- System.SByte
- System.Int16
- System.UInt16
- System.Int32
- System.UInt32
- System.Int64
- System.UInt64
- System.IntPtr
- System.UIntPtr
- System.Char
- System.Double
- System.Single
The VB.NET specification version 10 (in section 7.3) defines "primitive types" as being types that have a keyword alias for the type (thus allowing the usage of that type without importing the System namespace), a way to define instances of that type with a literal; and permitting the use of these types as constants; the primitive types in VB.NET are:
- System.Byte
- System.SByte
- System.UInt16 (UShort)
- System.Int16 (Short)
- System.UInt32 (UInteger)
- System.Int32 (Integer)
- System.UInt64 (ULong)
- System.Int64 (Long)
- System.Single
- System.Double
- System.Decimal
- System.Boolean
- System.DateTime (Date)
- System.Char
- System.String
The C# specification (version 4) defines keyword aliases for some types, and a

answered 2012-11-23T13:41:54.780

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