Are ref and out in C# the same a pointers in C++?

Question

I just made a Swap routine in C# like this:

static void Swap(ref int x, ref int y)
{
    int temp = x;
    x = y;
    y = temp;
}

It does t

Answer 1

The nice thing about using out is that you're guaranteed that the item will be assigned a value -- you will get a compile error if not.