Seriously considering writing my own blogging tool as none of the ones that exist meet my stringent requirements:
This issue goes beyond the type aliases - the language offers all sorts of features that have different FCL equivalents. For example, lock maps to Monitor.Enter/Monitor.Exit, using(resource-acquisition-statement) maps to try/finally/IDisposable.Dispose, foreach maps to IEnumerable.GetEnumerator/IEnumerator.MoveNext/IEnumerator.Current, etc.[Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]
This is an interesting aspect of C# and its relationship to the FCL. In most languages the libraries, as much as possible, are built on top of the language, but because the CLI was designed to support multiple languages the FCL sits below C#.
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