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TypeKind Enum

Definition

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Provides basic guidance about the origin of a type. Used as a value by TypeName.

public enum class TypeKind
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, 65536)]
enum class TypeKind
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(typeof(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract), 65536)]
public enum TypeKind
Public Enum TypeKind
Inheritance
TypeKind
Attributes

Windows requirements

Requirements Description
Device family
Windows 10 (introduced in 10.0.10240.0)
API contract
Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract (introduced in v1.0)

Fields

Name Value Description
Primitive 0

The type is a language-level primitive.
Metadata 1

The type is declared through WinMD (Windows Runtime metadata).
Custom 2

The type is a custom type declared by means other than WinMD.

Remarks

This enumeration is not relevant to type system information as reported to .NET code. Any value that reports type information from a Windows Runtime API being called by C# or Microsoft Visual Basic code is projected to System.Type.

Applies to

See also

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