Is there a way to define C# strongly-typed aliases of existing primitive types like `string` or `int`?

Question

Perhaps I am demonstrating my ignorance of some oft-used feautre of C# or the .NET framework, but I would like to know if there is a natively-supported way to create a type alia

Answer 1

Does the System.Net.Mail.MailAddress class fit your needs, or at least "help"?

EDIT: It's not explicitly IEquatable or ISerializable, but you could easily enough add those in your own wrapper.