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

Yes you should use nullable types

See Nullable

Nullable<int> Nullable<float> 

or simply

int? float?

PS:

If you don't want to use ? notation or Nullable at all - simply use special structures for such a thing. For example DataTable:

var table = new DataTable();
table.Columns.Add('intCol',typeof(int));
var row = table.NewRow();
row['intCol'] = null; //

Answer 2

Yes. That's why Microsoft added that. People were creating their own Nullable class so they included this pattern in .NET.