boxing and unboxing, why aren't the outputs both “System.Object”?

Question

I got the following code:

object var3 = 3;
Console.WriteLine(var3.GetType().ToString());
Console.WriteLine(typeof(object).ToString());

The outp

Answer 1

The GetType() function returns the actual type of the instance in the variable.

Even though your variable is declared as object, it's actually holding a boxed Int32 instance.