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

It seems you have at least a reasonable C# knoledgde so my answer may seem stupid, but what you want is called "type hierarchy" and the guys who coded the String class wanted to prevent you from using this "OO feature" so they made String class sealed, that's why you won't be able to do what you want. The best approach is this you are on now: Make your own type and an implicit convertion to String.