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Old Jul 10th, 2008, 10:08 AM   #3
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Re: Visual Basic pointers

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Originally Posted by melbolt View Post
yes, it is considered unsafe code since .NET uses its special garbage collector to free up memory and pointers fall outside the scope of the garbage collector.
I'm not an expert VB programmer but pass-by-reference is pretty common in VB. And I doubt the .NET garbage collection is even relevent to the question.

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in C# however there is a way to use pointers, but its not common.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadF...sInCSharp.aspx
That is completely irrelevent to the question of VB. Who gives a dam what C# does or doesn't do.
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