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Value types are stored in the heap when they are part of the reference type.

Reference types:

• passed via reference
• reside on the heap
• subject to GC
• inherits from System.Object

Value types:

• passed via value
• reside on the stack, CPU registers or the heap
• no subject to GC
• inherits from System.ValueType

Further read:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/reference-types

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/value-types

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3043992/a-deep-dive-value-and-reference-types-in-net.html

• shared type system across all .net languages
• primitives data types library
• 5 kind of types:
  • classes
  • structures
  • enumerations
  • interfaces
  • delegates

Further read:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/common-type-system

• provides a pool of threads
• can be used to execute tasks
• post work items
• process asynchronous I/O
• process timers

Further read:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.threadpool?view=net-6.0

• simplify process of adding parallelism and concurrency to application
• scales concurrency automatically
• data parallelism
• task based async programming
• data flow

Further read:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/parallel-programming/task-parallel-library-tpl