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Tridip Bhattacharjee wrote:
i heard that reference type stored in heap and their corresponding value stored in stack.

No. The instance (which holds the actual values) is always on the heap: only the reference to the instance is ever on the stack.

Let's think about instances for a moment.
What is an instance?
Basically, it's a specific example of something. "Car" is a generic idea - you know what a car is, it's got an engine, four wheels, that sort of thing. But a generic idea is not something you can drive to the shops in: for that you need "this car", "that car", "your car", "my car" - these are instances of the generic idea. Consider this:
What colour is a Car?

You can't answer, because a generic idea doesn't have a colour.
What colour is your car?

That's a lot easier: "your car is red", or "your car is blue" - because now you are talking about an instance instead of the generic idea.

So in terms of variables all instances of a Car are stored on the Heap, but the references to them are stored on the stack:
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Car myCar = new Mercedes("Red");     // I wish, it's not even close to new...
Car yourCar = new Bugatti("Black");  // Probably...:laugh:
"myCar" and "yourCar" are the variables and they are on the stack - but the actual Cars the refer to are on the heap.

And when I change cars:
C#
myCar = new BrokenDownHeapOfJunkThatWasABMWOnce();
That only changes the reference that "myCar" held - it doesn't destroy the "old" car I used to have, it just lets it be referenced by it's new owner. If you crash your car, then I could sell you my car, to get a new one myself:
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yourCar.Dispose();
yourCar = myCar;
myCar = new BrokenDownHeapOfJunkThatWasABMWOnce();
The variables are the same, but the items they reference have changed.

Make sense?
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