Now that we have looked at the complicated question of how to control the memory layout of a struct, it is time to discover how to get at the bytes that make up a struct, i.e. how do we serialise a ...

The difference between Structs and Classes isn't about data vs. code: it's about what happens when you move the data around. And sometimes you want a Struct, not a Class. Many times, when you create a ...

I'm trying to check whether a Point has been initialised. Hmmm. Now, I'm guessing that I can't do this because Point is a struct, and only classes are initialised to null. Any suggestions why this ...

While there are similarities aplenty between a class and a struct, there are some distinct differences too. Most importantly, a struct unlike a class, is a value type. So, while instances of a class ...

If you really do want to specify the space allocated to any particular field you can use Explicit. For example: produces a 16-byte struct with extra bytes following the b field. Until C# 2.0 the main ...