What is the integer reference type in C#?

Question

I\'d like to have an integer variable which can be set to null and don\'t want to have to use the int? myVariable syntax. I tried using int and

Answer 1

The ? syntax makes it nullable. If you dig a bit deeper, you'll see it's just a generic object that gets used.

If you want to do it like C++ you must use unsafe operations. Then, pointers like in C are available, but your code doesn't conform to CLR...

For using pure .NET without pointers, the ? is the way to go.