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| Term
| Structure
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| Definition
| Normally, a structure is a light-weight class used to create user-defined types containing only public fields and no properties. A structure is considered a value type. .NET structures support access modifiers, constructors, indexers, methods, nested types, operators, and properties. Unlike classes, structures do not support custom constructors, destructors, inheritance, or compile-time initialization of instance fields. Performance suffers when using structures in situations where reference types are expected due to Boxing and Unboxing.
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| See also
| C# keyword struct, Class,
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