Diff b/w casting and boxing

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Diff b/w casting and boxing..

Answer / ritesh kumar

Boxing is converting a value type to a reference type
(Object Type).Casting is converting a reference type to a
reference type or a value type as another value type.
int i = 0;
object o = (object)i; //this is boxing
int i2 = (int)o; //this is unboxing.

long l = (long)i; //this is casting.

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Diff b/w casting and boxing..

Answer / kamlesh sharma

casting is a process to convert data of one type to another
data type
and boxing is the process to convert value type to
reference type

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Diff b/w casting and boxing..

Answer / hafiz usman majeed

casting is the process of coverting one type of data to
another type of data. it is superclass for all type of type
conversions.whereas boxing is subclass of casting where
value types are converted to reference types

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Diff b/w casting and boxing..

Answer / senthil kumar

casting is convertion of data like integer to string,string
to interger,etc..,

but the boxing simply involves to convert the value types
to reference types.That means assigning the value to the
object.

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