What is Reference type and value type

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Reference Type:

Reference types are allocated on the managed CLR heap, just like object types.

A data type that is stored as a reference to the value's location. The value of a reference type is the location of the sequence of bits

that represent the type's data. Reference types can be self-describing types, pointer types, or interface types

Value Type:

Value types are allocated on the stack just like primitive types in VBScript, VB6 and C/C++. Value types are not instantiated using new go out of scope when the function they are defined within returns.

Value types in the CLR are defined as types that derive from system.valueType.

A data type that fully describes a value by specifying the sequence of bits that constitutes the value's representation. Type information for a value type instance is not stored with the instance at run time, but it is available in metadata. Value type instances can be treated as objects using boxing.