Object variable type is a special type, the parent of all other types in the .NET Framework. It can accept values from any other type in C#, and we declare it using the word object.
In the following example you can see how we can assign any type to an object variable type:
// Declare some variables
object container1 = 5;
object container2 = "Five";
// Print the results on the console
Console.WriteLine("The value of container1 is: " + container1);
Console.WriteLine("The value of container2 is: " + container2);
Console.Read();
And the output would be:
As you can notice, the object variable can be very versatile, and we can use it as a universal data container.
The concepts explained in this lesson are also shown visually as part of the following video:
