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CTS Type Members

Now that you have previewed each of the types formalized by the CTS, realize that most types take

any number of members. Formally speaking, a type member is constrained by the set {constructor,

finalizer, static constructor, nested type, operator, method, property, indexer, field, read-only field,

constant, event}.

The CTS defines various “adornments” that may be associated with a given member. For exam-

ple, each member has a given visibility trait (e.g., public, private, protected, and so forth). Some

members may be declared as abstract to enforce a polymorphic behavior on derived types as well as

virtual to define a canned (but overridable) implementation. Also, most members may be config-

ured as static (bound at the class level) or instance (bound at the object level). The construction of

type members is examined over the course of the next several chapters.