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Re: Boxing and unboxing

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From: Andre
Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 18:35
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This clears up al of my concerns in my code. Of the four books i have on 
.NET, your explanation was the best regarding the refrence issue.

Thanks.


"Joanna Carter [TeamB]" <joanna@not.for.spam> wrote in message 
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> "Joanna Carter [TeamB]" <joanna@not.for.spam> a οΏ½crit dans le message de
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> | "By value" means that, whatever you do to that reference inside the
> method,
> | it won't affect the reference passed in. "By reference" means that you 
> can
> | change the reference inside the method and it will affect the reference
> | passed that was passed in.
>
> Let me just clarify further that when I talk about affecting the reference
> being passed in, I am talking about changing the memory address of it, not
> the contents of the object contained in the reference.
>
> Both "by value" and "by reference" will allow you to change the contents 
> of
> the object being passed in and you will still be working with the same
> object. "By ref" allows you to change the object that the reference passed
> in is holding, something you don't want to do.
>
> Joanna
>
> -- 
> Joanna Carter [TeamB]
> Consultant Software Engineer
>
> 
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