boxing reference type?

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Sharon

when a reference type is stored in say hashtable.
is it converted to an object type and is it also considered boxing although
the object was not a value type?
10x.
 
Sharon said:
when a reference type is stored in say hashtable.
is it converted to an object type and is it also considered boxing although
the object was not a value type?
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No. No boxing occurs at all.
 
Sharon said:
Just casting then?
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Well, just using the implicit conversion from one reference type to
another, where the destination type is in the inheritence hierarchy of
the source type, as it were.
 
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