The rules that apply to the data types in a programming language. Every language supports some number of data types (binary, text string, floating point, etc.) that are processed by the instructions.

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

I'm writing out some values to the Registry using the RegistryKey class. Most are strings but two are longs. How is the RegistryKey class determining what data type to use? One of the longs is being ...