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There is no concept of "dereferencing" in C# because there are no pointers. Technically it is possible to force the environment to allow you to write unsafe cod

• ygra 13y ago
  One thing where it is useful is manipulating image data. You can get a raw pointer from the Bitmap class you can then manipulate with unsafe code which is orders of magnitude faster than the normal variant. Basically you're saying, for a single method or a block of code "Please turn off all safety nets, but only for these 20 lines". The places where it's useful or necessary are quite few, though.
• deletes 13y ago
  The tutorial ( story link ) says otherwise: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288474%28v=vs.71%29.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288474%28v=vs.71%2...
• taspeotis 13y ago
  > There is no concept of "dereferencing" in C# because there are no pointers. You seem to have confused C# with some totally different language [1]. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y31yhkeb.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y31yhkeb.aspx