.NET for Visual FoxPro Developers

Appendix B
Data Type Comparison Table

The following table provides a side-by-side comparison of Visual FoxPro, C#, and Visual Basic.NET data types.

Data Type Comparison

Table 1 is an adaptation of the table found in the .NET Help topic “Data Types Compared in Different Languages”.

Table 1. A comparison of Visual FoxPro, C#, and VB.NET data types

Storage size	Visual FoxPro	C#	VB.NET
16 bytes	Variant	n/a	n/a
Decimals	n/a	decimal	Decimal
Date	Date, DateTime	DateTime	Date,DateTime
(varies)	n/a	string	String
1 byte	Logical	byte	Byte
2 bytes	n/a	bool	Boolean
2 bytes	n/a	short, char (Unicode character)	Short, Char (Unicode character)
1 byte	Character	n/a	n/a
4 bytes	Integer	int	Integer
8 bytes	Float	long	Long
4 bytes	n/a	float	Single
8 bytes	Double	double	Double
4 bytes in table	General	n/a	n/a

Table 2. A list of C# and VB.NET data types