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What is boxing? What is the benefits and disadvantages of it?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: June 05, 2007     Asked by: BostonCow 
  
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June 05, 2007 00:07:25   #1  
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RE: What is boxing? What is the benefits and disadvan...
Boxing is converting a value-type to reference type. An example is converting an integer value to an object value.

Ex:
int intValue 10;
object obj (object)intValue;

This is used if you want to pass variables of object types to certain functions or methods you have created. Commonly used in events for example (Object sender...).

 
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