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What to Know About Value Types and Reference Types in C#

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by Brendan Enrick
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After reading this article you should have a basic understanding of how value types and reference types work. Do not believe you are an expert on the subject now, reading this article will not make you one. This should give you enough of an understanding of the subject that working with them in the future will not be difficult. When problems with them arise you will understand how they work and be able to work your way through. Go forth with this new knowledge and solve the problems of the programming world.

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Title: ggf
Name: jagan nagabilli
Date: 11/28/2008 12:13:48 AM
Comment:
excellent article.....its really helps us alot..thanz author

Title: RE: Reference Assignment
Name: Brendan Enrick
Date: 11/13/2008 10:44:30 AM
Comment:
@Horus Thanks Horus, hmm I can't believe I forgot to mention the immutability of strings. Thanks for mentioning it.

Title: Reference Assignment
Name: Horus
Date: 11/13/2008 10:15:44 AM
Comment:
Good articel. You have to be careful with your example in the chapter 'Reference Assignment' thought. The assignment in the example works exact the way it is illustrated, but the text after the figure is only true for reference types that aren't strings. Strings are implemented as immutable and will automatically created a new instance if they are changed. So a change of 'myName' would create an independent instance with 'myName' pointing to it and authorName would keep its pointer to the old instance and so its value would remain unchanged.

Title: Value Types & Reference types
Name: Vishal Khot
Date: 10/14/2008 4:54:15 AM
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great yaar
i am really happy by the fact that there are people who has the
tremendous capacity like you to explain the matter
it was very good & thorough explaination
great man
keep doing this

Title: Thanxx Brother
Name: Muhammad Atif Javed
Date: 9/25/2008 2:37:18 AM
Comment:
You'r posted article is very very nice. I learned a lot from this article. This article is written in very easy words with easy to understand examples and this this will clear my concepts about value types and reference types.

Title: very helpful
Name: Sivakumar
Date: 9/10/2008 2:55:16 AM
Comment:
Very very helpful
Good for every one.....

Title: Very very helpful
Name: Poornima
Date: 9/5/2008 2:04:04 PM
Comment:
It is a fantastic article written in very simple language which makes it easy for beginners like me to understand.I understood everything explained in the article and Now i think I can make some sense out of the big fat C# books which I was trying to read in the first place.After struggling through complicated articles and ebooks this was like a breath of fresh air.Thanks a ton

Title: A Good Article for Beginners.
Name: Ahsan
Date: 7/9/2008 1:19:11 AM
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It is really a very nice article for the beginners to get very Good Concept on Value Type and Reference Type.

Thanks for providing such a clear explanation.

Title: Very informative
Name: Prince
Date: 7/9/2008 1:03:24 AM
Comment:
It was really informative. All concepts are well described except nullable which i couldn't make out :) Thanks for sharing this.

Title: Good Article
Name: suchi banerjee
Date: 7/9/2008 12:37:57 AM
Comment:
It is a very good article. Probably you could have added a little more i.e. Cloning.

Title: RE: Good Article
Name: Brendan
Date: 7/8/2008 8:57:35 AM
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@Ravi Chougule

Thanks, I was trying to keep it simple and easy enough for beginners to understand. I am quite happy to hear that it is also valuable for you.

Title: Good Article
Name: Ravi Chougule
Date: 7/8/2008 5:59:37 AM
Comment:
This is really good atrticle for all...not just beginners.
Thank you

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