c# - is SHORT data type or it is still INT?

Question

I am doing some classification and I am not sure:

INT is a primitive datatype with keyword "int"

But I can use Int16,Int32 or Int64 - I know C# has its own names for them. But are those data types as well or it is still INT? And mainly, can we say "short" is a datatype or INT16 is a datatype? Thanks :)

Answer 1

In C#, the following things are always true:

• short == Int16
• ushort == UInt16
• int == Int32
• uint == UInt32
• long == Int64
• ulong == UInt64

Both versions are data types. All of the above are integers of various lengths and signed-ness.

The main difference between the two versions (as far as I know) is what colour they are highlighted as in Visual Studio.