Struct and Class Example | Difference Between Struct and Class

Structs and Class:

	struct	class
1	It is value type	It is Reference Type
2	Default access specifier is Public	Default access specifier is Private
3	It only has Constructor	It has both Constructor and Destructor
4	Struct has values residing on Stack	Class have Object values residing on Heap and it has references to the objects on stack
5	do not support Inheritance	It Supports Inheritance

Example:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication3

{

    struct emp

    {

        public int empid;

        public string empname;

    }

    class dept

    {

        public int deptid;

        public string deptname;

    }

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            emp e = new emp();

            emp e2 = e;

            e.empid = 1;

            e.empname = "chandan";

            e2.empid = 2;

            e2.empname = "Rahul";

            Console.WriteLine("ID:{0} and Name:{1}", e.empid, e.empname);

            Console.WriteLine("ID2:{0} and Name2:{1}", e2.empid, e2.empname);

            dept d = new dept();

            dept d2 = d;

            d.deptid = 100;

            d.deptname = "Accounts";

            d2.deptid = 101;

            d2.deptname = "IT";

            Console.WriteLine("ID:{0} and Name:{1}", d.deptid, d.deptname);

            Console.WriteLine("ID2:{0} and Name2:{1}", d2.deptid, d2.deptname);

            Console.ReadLine();

        }

    }

}

Result :

class object referring to the same values whereas struct has new values assigned