Why string is a reference type, but behaves differently from other reference types?
c#, string
Solution
That code would work if you had an implicit conversion from a string to an `Employee`. Basically a string literal is of type `string` - i.e. its value is a string reference (and an interned one at that). You can only assign a value of one type to a variable of another type if there's a conversion between the two types - either user-defined or built in. In this case, there's no conversion from `string` to `Employee`, hence the error.
Contrary to some other answers, the types don't have to be the same - for example, this is fine:
object x = "string literal";
That's fine because there's an implicit reference conversion from `string` to `object`. Likewise you can write:
XNamespace ns = "some namespace";
because there's an implicit conversion from string to `XNamespace`.
To answer your second question: to see if a type in .NET is a value type or a reference type... `struct` and `enum` types are value types; everything else (class, delegate, interface, array) is a reference type. That's excluding pointer types, which are a bit different :)
Problem
We know that string is a reference type , so we have ``` string s="God is great!"; ``` but on the same note if i declare class say Employee which is a reference type so why below piece of code does not work ? ``` Employee e = "Saurabh"; ``` 2- How do we actually determine if a type is a reference type or value type?