Data Types and Operators in C#.NET

Data Types & Operators

Data Types

Data Type is a set of allowable values. It defines type of data and size of memory required. C#.net has following of categories of data types.

           Value Types

           Value Type store its contents in memory allocated in stack

           

           Reference Types

Reference Type stores the address of memory where data stored. Reference Type store the data in heap memory.

Pointer Types ( it is unsafe and not advised to use)

           

Value Types

SNO	Data Type	Size	Range	Default Value	Framework Type
1	Int	4 bytes	-2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647	0	System.Int32
2	Uint	4 bytes		0	System.UInt32
3	short	2 bytes	-32,768 to 32,767	0	System.Int16
4	ushort	2 bytes	0 to 65,535	0	System.UInt16
5	long	8bytes	–9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807	0	System.Int64
6	ulong	8bytes	0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615	0	System.UInt64
7	byte	1 byte	0 to 255	0	System.Byte
8	sbyte	1 byte	-128 to 127		System.SByte
9	float	4 bytes		0.0F	System.Single
10	double	8 bytes		0.0	System.Double
11	decimal	16 Bytes		0	System.Decimal
12	bool	1 Byte		False
13	Struct
14	char	2 Bytes		‘\0’	System.Char
15	enum

Reference Types

• class
• interface
• delegate
• dynamic
• string
• object 

Pointer Types

            Pointer Type stores the address of another variable. Pointer Types can be used in unsafe context.

Ex;

            int* p1,p2;

int a=23;

            unsafe

{

            p1=&a;

}

Any of the following types may be a pointer type:

·         sbyte, byte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, ulong, char, float, double, decimal, or bool

·         Any enum type.

·         Any pointer type.

·         Any user-defined struct type that contains fields of unmanaged types only.

To make run the unsafe code in c#.net, turn on ‘allow unsafe’ check box in visual studio 2012 under build properties (Project->Properties->Build).

Variable Declaration

Syntax:  <datatype> <variablename>;

int a =2;

int b=3,c=4;

float f=2.3F;   ( float f=2.3 will throw an error. In c# all decimal points will be treated as double. Hence float value has to be suffixed with F or f)

double b=2.45;

decimal c=2.6M;(decimal values should be suffixed with M or m)

string name=”sateesh”;

Operators

Arithmetic Operators	+, -, *, /
Assignment Operator	=
Arithmetic Assignment Operators	+=, -=, *=, /=
Relational Operators	>,<,>=,<=, !=, ==
Logical Operators	&& (and), || (OR), ! (NOT)
Ternary Operator	?:
Increment Operator	++
Decrement Operator	--

Examples:-

class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            int a = 3;

            int b = a ^ 2;

            int c = a + b;

            string s1 = "Jeorge";

            string s2 = "Bush";

            string s3 = s1 + " " + s2;

Console.Write("Values of variable: a={0},b={1},c={2},s1={3},s2={4},s3={5}",a,b,c,s1,s2,s3);

          

              a+=2; // this is equivalent to a=a+b;

        }

    }

Output : Values of variable: a=34,b=102,c=56,s1=Jeorge,s2=Bush,s3=Jeorge Bush

Note: + operator on strings concatenates the strings and on numeric data will add. + operator cannot be applied ob byte arguments.

Examples on Ternary Operator

int a=23;b=35

int big=a>b?a:b;

int a=34, b=102, c=56;

int big=a>b && a>c?a:(b>c)?b:c;

Examples on Increment and Decrement Operator

int a=105;

int b=a++;  (post increment)

value of b is 105 and value a is 106;

int a=105;

int b=++a;  (pre increment)

value of b is 106 and value a is 106;