As well as providing a type system that is common to all .NET languages, the CLR also provides a set of primitives types that is common to all .NET languages. The .NET primitive types include:

               size   C#        VB.NET
System.Boolean    8   bool      Boolean
System.Byte       8   byte      Byte
System.Int16     16   short     Short
System.Int32     32   int       Integer
System.Int64     64   long      Long
System.Float     32   float     Single
System.Double    64   double    Double
System.Char      16   char      Char
System.Decimal  128   decimal   Decimal