C# 5.0 Unleashed

Summary

Types are the containers for state and operations. Although we haven’t talked about object-oriented programming yet, we’ve learned about various essential features of types. First, we contrasted classes and structs, discussing concepts of references and values. Related to this, we learned about memory management provided by the runtime, in particular the stack and the heap. Finally, the concept of boxing was explained.

In preparation for the next few chapters, we also talked about common aspects of a type’s members. This includes the notion of visibility and the difference between static- and instance-level members. To wrap up our discussion of members, we also learned how to use partial types to split the definition of a type’s members ...