Reference and Value Type differences between C# and VB.NET

[Humberto Morales]

Do C# reference and value types exist in VB.NET?

So if I create 2 classes of the same type and 2 structs of the same type
then make them equal to each other. When I make a change to the class types
the changes reflect in both because its a reference type but not in the
struct type because its a value type. Does also apply to VB.NET?

Thanks in advance.

H

[Patrice Scribe]

Yes and it was already like that in previous VB releases... Object variables
are just "pointers"...

Patrice

"Humberto Morales" <humberto@socal.rr.com> a écrit dans le message news:
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> Do C# reference and value types exist in VB.NET?
>
> So if I create 2 classes of the same type and 2 structs of the same type
> then make them equal to each other. When I make a change to the class
types
> the changes reflect in both because its a reference type but not in the
> struct type because its a value type. Does also apply to VB.NET?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> H
>
>

[Rob Teixeira]

"Humberto Morales" <humberto@socal.rr.com> wrote:
>Do C# reference and value types exist in VB.NET?

Yes. Reference and Value types are defined by the common type specification,
and apply to all .NET languages.

>So if I create 2 classes of the same type and 2 structs of the same type
>then make them equal to each other.

You can use the equals operator on any type that is polymorphic.

>When I make a change to the class types
>the changes reflect in both because its a reference type but not in the
>struct type because its a value type. Does also apply to VB.NET?

Yes.

-Rob

[Humberto Morales]

Thanks
"Humberto Morales" <humberto@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3b8f3216@news.devx.com...
> Do C# reference and value types exist in VB.NET?
>
> So if I create 2 classes of the same type and 2 structs of the same type
> then make them equal to each other. When I make a change to the class
types
> the changes reflect in both because its a reference type but not in the
> struct type because its a value type. Does also apply to VB.NET?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> H
>
>