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What is boxing and unboxing?

Author: shahin Posted Date: 29/05/2009 Category: ASP.Net Points: 10

Answer: Converting a value type to reference type is called Boxing and Converting reference type of value type is Unboxing.

int i = 1;
object o = i; // boxing
int j = (int) o; // unboxing

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