Difference between Boxing/Unboxing and type casting

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I have tried googling a lot but none of the posts/articles gave satisfactory solution.
I have a doubt that how type casting is different from boxing/unboxing and does boxing means converting value type to reference type or value type to type object.

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Ankur.

Posted 22-Sep-14 8:53am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Sep-14 16:01pm

As nearly always, the question about "difference" makes no sense. What difference? Boxing may appear as a part of casting and assignment, so this question is the same as asking "what is the difference between typing text and pressing keys on the keyboard?".
—SA

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-22T08:58:00

Solution 1

Everything you need is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173104.aspx[^]

Posted 22-Sep-14 8:58am

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CPallini 22-Sep-14 15:15pm

5.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 22-Sep-14 15:52pm

Thank you!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Sep-14 16:02pm

Yes, it is there; a 5. See also my comment to the question :-)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 22-Sep-14 16:09pm

Thank you!