{"id":127,"date":"2014-04-23T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/23\/what-is-boxing-and-unboxing\/"},"modified":"2014-04-23T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T10:25:00","slug":"what-is-boxing-and-unboxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/23\/what-is-boxing-and-unboxing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is boxing and unboxing ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBoxing<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nImplicit conversion of a value type (int, char etc.) to a reference type (object), is known as Boxing. In boxing process, a value type is being allocated on the heap rather than the stack.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nUnboxing<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nExplicit conversion of same reference type (which is being created by boxing process); back to a value type is known as unboxing. In unboxing process, boxed value type is unboxed from the heap and assigned to a value type which is being allocated on the stack.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nFor Example:<\/span><\/h3>\n
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  1. \/ int (value type) is created on the Stack<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. int<\/span> <\/span>stackVar<\/span> <\/span>=<\/span> <\/span>12<\/span>;<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3.  <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. \/\/ Boxing = int is created on the Heap (reference type)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. object boxedVar <\/span>=<\/span> <\/span>stackVar<\/span>;<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  6.  <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  7. \/\/ Unboxing = boxed int is unboxed from the heap and assigned to an int stack variable<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  8. int<\/span> unBoxed <\/span>=<\/span> <\/span>(<\/span>int<\/span>)<\/span>boxedVar<\/span>;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    \nAnother Example:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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    int<\/span> x <\/span>=<\/span> <\/span>10<\/span>;<\/span>\n<\/span>string<\/span> s <\/span>=<\/span> <\/span>string<\/span>.<\/span>Format<\/span>(<\/span> <\/span>\"The value of x is {0}\"<\/span>,<\/span> x <\/span>);<\/span> <\/span>\/\/ x is boxed here<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n
    \n<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Boxing Implicit conversion of a value type (int, char etc.) to a reference type (object), is known as Boxing. In boxing process, a value type is being allocated on the heap rather than the stack. Unboxing Explicit conversion of same reference type (which is being created by boxing process); back to a value type is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-net"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Himanshu Namdeo","author_link":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Boxing Implicit conversion of a value type (int, char etc.) to a reference type (object), is known as Boxing. In boxing process, a value type is being allocated on the heap rather than the stack. Unboxing Explicit conversion of same reference type (which is being created by boxing process); back to a value type is…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debuggersspace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}