C# 0 The Complete Reference

PART I

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PART IPART I

unboxing automatically handle the details for the value types. Furthermore, because all 

types are derived from 

object

, they all have access to 

object

’s methods. For example, 

consider the following rather surprising program:

// Boxing makes it possible to call methods on a value!

using System;

class MethOnValue {

  static void Main() {

    Console.WriteLine(10.ToString());

  }

}

This program displays 10. The reason is that the 

ToString( )

 method returns a string 

representation of the object on which it is called. In this case, the string representation 

of 10 is 10!