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CTS Structure Types

The concept of a structure is also formalized under the CTS. If you have a C background, you should

be pleased to know that these user-defined types (UDTs) have survived in the world of .NET (although

they behave a bit differently under the hood). Simply put, a 

structure can be thought of as a light-

weight class type having value-based semantics. For more details on the subtleties of structures, see

Chapter 4. Typically, structures are best suited for modeling geometric and mathematical data, and

are created in C# using the struct keyword: