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what is the difference between instance and object ?

Vithal Wadje

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ahmed fahd13y ago
object is a copy of your variable what ever it's kind
reference is like making secretary for the object any thing you give to this secretary it send it to the base object as a value for it
Vulpes13y ago
As far as classes are concerned, there's no difference - an object or instance of a class is an entity of that class's type.

However, instance is a wider term in that you can also have an instance of a struct which is an entity of that struct's type.

So, for example, in this code:

String s = "abc";
Int32 i = 3;

"abc" is an object or instance of the System.String class and 3 is an instance (or value) of the System.Int32 struct.