C# also lets us create what’s called value objects, a special type of object used in domain-driven design that allows us to articulate domain concepts simply, clearly, and concisely.

The C# language provides support for two types of data: value types and reference types. While a variable of type System.String is a reference type, a variable of type Int32 is a value type.

A data type is a value type if it holds a data value within its own memory space. It means variables of these data types directly contain their values. Unlike value types, a reference type doesn't ...

Developers should have a basic proficiency of a language's data types. In this article, Irina Medvinskaya presents an overview of two types of predefined C# variables: value types and reference types.

Variables that are based on value types directly contain values. Assigning one value type variable to another copies the contained value. This differs from the assignment of reference type variables, ...

Closures in C#: Variable Scoping and Value Types vs Reference Types 23 February, 2009. It was a Monday. I read Sergio’s post on “Javascript, time to grok closures” today and it was very enlightening.

Actually, the argument over whether the String data type is a value or a reference type isn't really an argument about Strings at all: It's about where, in the developer's conceptual hierarchy, the ...