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Is it true that all C# types derive from a common base class?

  Shared By: Jeffrey Washington    Date: Nov 04    Category: C#    Views: 1117

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Yes and no. All types can be treated as if they derive from object (System.Object), but in order to treat an instance of a value type (e.g. int, float) as object-derived, the instance must be converted to a reference type using a process called 'boxing'. In theory a developer can forget about this and let the run-time worry about when the conversion is necessary, but in reality this implicit conversion can have side-effects that may trip up the unwary.

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