Introducing custom metadata types

Custom metadata types are meta metadata. That’s right, they are twice as “meta!” The records of a custom metadata type are themselves metadata, not data.
This means that, unlike custom objects or custom settings records, the records of custom metadata types can be deployed from a sandbox with change sets or packaged in managed packages.
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As you can see, the syntax is simple and is to understand – even at first glance! Next, let’s take a look at a slightly more complicated code sample where we define a Type called a person that contains two variables for First Name and Last Name. And then we’ll also define two instances of the person using constants.
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