Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, Ninth Edition

CHAPTER 9

Creating value types with enumerations and structures

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Declare an enumeration type.

• Create and use an enumeration type.

• Declare a structure type.

• Create and use a structure type.

• Explain the differences in behavior between a structure and a class.

Chapter 8, “Understanding values and references,” covers the two fundamental types that exist in Microsoft Visual C#: value types and reference types. Recall that a value type variable holds its value directly on the stack, whereas a reference type variable holds a reference to an object on the heap. Chapter 7, “Creating and managing classes and objects,” demonstrates how to create your own reference types by defining classes. In this chapter, ...