Value Types

We know that all the primitives types are derived from the System.ValueType.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you write:

System.ValueType x = 10;

So whats the type of 'x'. If you do a GetType() on x you will find out that the type is Int32. What it does is it assigns 'x' the type dependent upon the value of 'x'.

After the above statement if you say:

x = 23.45;

It will be treated as double Cool right :).

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