Chapter 9. Creating Value Types with Enumerations and Structures
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Declare an enumeration type.
Create and use an enumeration type.
Declare a structure type.
Create and use a structure type.
Explain the differences in behavior between a structure and a class.
In Chapter 8 you learned about the two fundamental types that exist in Microsoft Visual C#: value types and reference types. A value type variable holds its value directly on the stack, whereas a reference type variable holds a reference to an object on the heap. In Chapter 7 you learned how to create your own reference types by defining classes. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create your own value types.
C# supports two kinds of value types: ...
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