What is relationship between CTS and CLS?

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harrisunderwork picture harrisunderwork · Jun 5, 2010 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I just cant seem to understand these pillars of .NET.

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Incognito picture Incognito · Jun 5, 2010

CTS (Common Type System) So you can say CTS describes how types are declared, used and managed in the runtime and facilitates cross-language integration, type safety, and high performance code execution.

CLS (Common Language Specification) The Common Language Specification (CLS) is an agreement among language designers and class library designers to use a common subset of basic language features that all languages have to follow.

As you can see in the image CLS is a subset of CTS

alt text http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/msdn/columns/DoNet/images/NET_CTS1.gif

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