... information to start coding. Chapter 34, “C# Compared to Other Languages,” offers language-specific comparisons for C++, VB, and Java for programmers attuned to a specific language, or for those ... implicitly converted to a reference to object, and a reference to object may be explicitly converted to a reference to any class type. Figure 15-2 shows the previous example pictorially. Figure ... us to create an instance and load it, and then save it into the array. The reason that arrays aren’t initialized is for performance. If the compiler did do the initialization, it would need to...