C# 0 The Complete Reference

object

 reference can hold a reference to any other 

type of data, it is possible to use an 

object

 reference to refer to any type of data. Thus, an array 

of

object

 as used by the program can store any type of data. Expanding on this concept, it is 

easy to see how you could construct a stack class, for example, that stored 

object

 references. 

This would enable the stack to store any type of data.

Although the universal-type feature of 

object

 is powerful and can be used quite effectively 

in some situations, it is a mistake to think that you should use 

object

 as a way around C#’s 

otherwise strong type checking. In general, when you need to store an