newbie question

[Matias Szulman]

what is boxing?
what does 'boxing' and 'unboxing' mean?

Thanks

 

[Jon Skeet]

Value types are created on the stack,
reference types are created on the heap,
and a pointer/reference to them is created
on the stack

This is a bit of a generalisation (on the value type side). I'm sure
Chad knows it, but I thought I'd point it out anyway.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/memory.html