Development Fundamentals

Question 1

What items are stored on the Heap?

Answer 1

A Reference Type goes on the Heap

• class
• interface
• delegate
• object
• string

Question 2

What items are stored on the Stack?

Answer 2

Value Types go on the Stack

• bool
• byte
• char
• decimal
• double
• enum
• float
• int
• long
• sbyte
• short
• struct
• uint
• ulong
• ushort

Question 3

What is the Stack?

Answer 3

Is responsible for keeping track of where each thread is during the execution of our code (or what’s been called).

Question 4

What is the Heap?

Answer 4

Is responsible for keeping track of our objects (Also garbage collection is used when object is not referenced anymore)

Question 5

What is the importance of Generics?

Answer 5

• Application performance due to eliminating the need for boxing and unboxing
• Type-safety
• Higher quality code because you get to reuse data processing algorithms without duplicating type-specific code
• Parametric polymorphism
• Code is not duplicated for multiple types of data

Question 6

What is Marshaling?

Answer 6

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