Setting a ref to a member field in C#

Question

I\'d like to assign a reference to a member field. But I obviously do not understand this part of C# very well, because I failed :-) So, here\'s my code:

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Answer 1

As others have pointed out, you cannot store a reference to a variable in a field in C#, or indeed, any CLR language.

Of course you can capture a reference to a class instance that contains a variable easily enough:

sealed class MyRef
{
  public T Value { get; set; }
}
public class End 
{
  public MyRef parameter;
  public End(MyRef parameter) 
  {
    this.parameter = parameter;
    this.Init();
    Console.WriteLine("Inside: {0}", parameter.Value);
  }
  public void Init() 
  {
    this.parameter.Value = "success";
  }
}
class MainClass 
{
  public static void Main() 
  {
    MyRef s = new MyRef();
    s.Value = "failed";
    End e = new End(s);
    Console.WriteLine("After: {0}", s.Value);
  }
}

Easy peasy.