What is meant by boxing and unboxing

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Can you Please let me know the boxing and unboxing with some samples

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M.Dhanasekaran

Posted 7-Apr-11 18:34pm

dhanasekaranm

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dhanasekaranm 8-Apr-11 2:02am

i refered the link. really its nice. i got an idea. Thanks

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My kid usually play a game. She put something inside a box and asks me to guess what it is, Boxing. finally she opens it and show me what it is, unboxing. Now where we use it? When going for the birth day party they receive Gifts, not specific gifts. So you need to do a boxing. Now think it in your programming. Just the same.

Boxing and unboxing has little overhead. Using overloaded methods can avoid this. Though in some cases it can't be avoided.

However this concept not just belong to c#. It is a general concept.

You want more technical? Look at JF2015's answer and handshake with google.

Posted 7-Apr-11 19:06pm

Albin Abel

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**JF2015** · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-07T18:37:00

Solution 1

Have you tried to google it?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yz2be5wk%28VS.80%29.aspx[^]
Boxing and unboxing in C#[^]

Posted 7-Apr-11 18:37pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Apr-11 1:15am

Better than trying to explain, my 5.
--SA

JF2015 8-Apr-11 1:17am

Thanks - As always there is no need to repeat information that can be found anywhere on the net.

Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-07T18:42:00

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I would recommend reading a book on .Net. Many books describe these concepts in great detail.

Posted 7-Apr-11 18:42pm

Abhinav S

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Apr-11 1:15am

Reasonable advice got "1". Hm. Somebody hates books :-)
My 5.
--SA

Abhinav S 8-Apr-11 1:19am

Thank you.
Or reading :).