What is difference between value and reference types?

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What is difference between value and reference types?..

Answer / payal

value
this stored actual value

reference
stored the address of the value

value store in stack
reference is stored in heap

the variable which are value type they each time create
their own copy
the variable which are reference type they refer the same
object every time

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What is difference between value and reference types?..

Answer / chaitanya.k

Value types allocates the values in stack
Reference types allocates the value references in Heap

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What is difference between value and reference types?..

Answer / surya

Value Type holds the data within this own memory allocation.

where as Reference Type contains a pointer to another
memory location that holds the data.

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What is difference between value and reference types?..

Answer / shiva charan

Moreover added to the above points

if two reference variables are pointing to the same
location, change in one reference variable will reflect the
other referenc variable.

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What is difference between value and reference types?..

Answer / kartheeksirangipatel

ValueType:
-->Value types holds data directly.
-->Nodefault value for valuetype
-->valuetype stored in stack memory
-->Stack is not accessible to Garbage collector
Ex--->Predefined datatypes
Structures
Enumarator
Reference type:
-->Ref type does not holds the datadirectly
-->Ref type holds the default value
-->ref type will be stored in Heap memory
-->Heap is accessible to garbage collector
Ex--->Arryas
Classes
Objects
Deligates
Interfaces

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