Structures Question(s)??

Are the .Net primitive data types classes or structures?? Also, is a structure considered an object? Can you derive another structure from another structures? Sorry for so many questions, but my book is unclear about this topic.

I don't have an answer but I found this on MSDN.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ceapicalls.asp

the data types are class objects...everything in .NET is treated as such.

i believe yes you should be able to derive a struct from a struct.

The type hierarchy for .net starts off with "object" at the top, under which is

Code:

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Object
    String (note, not a primitive type)
    Array
    ValueType
          PrimitiveTypes
          Enum
          Structure
    Exception
    Delegate
          Multicast Delegate
    Class

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Primitive datatypes are value types (like structs) not reference types (like classes).

And a struct can't be derived from another struct !