Assignments
Because structures are value types, assigning an instance of a structure to a variable declared as of that type creates a full copy of the data. The following brief code demonstrates this:
In the preceding code, thirdOrder is a full copy of firstOrder. You can easily check this by using the data tips feature of the Visual Studio Debugger or adding the variable to a Watch window.
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