boxing unboxing

Question

I found the following code snippet while searching about boxing and unboxing in C#.

class TestBoxing
{
    static void Main()
    {
        int i = 123;

        // Boxing copies the value of i into object o. 
        object o = i;  

        // Change the value of i.
        i = 456;  

        // The change in i does not effect the value stored in o.
        System.Console.WriteLine("The value-type value = {0}", i);
        System.Console.WriteLine("The object-type value = {0}", o);
    }
}
/* Output:
    The value-type value = 456
    The object-type value = 123
*/

Over here it says that even though he value of i changes the value of o remains the same.If so then o is referencing to the value "123" and not i.Is it so?If o stored the value of i then when the value of I was changed the value of o would have changed too. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Answer 1

Boxing is the process of converting a value type to the type object or to any interface type implemented by this value type. When the CLR boxes a value type, it wraps the value inside a System.Object and stores it on the managed heap. Unboxing extracts the value type from the object. Boxing is implicit; unboxing is explicit. The concept of boxing and unboxing underlies the C# unified view of the type system in which a value of any type can be treated as an object.

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int i = 123;
// The following line boxes i. 
object o = i;  

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o = 123;
i = (int)o;  // unboxing

please read the full article on MSDN.