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title: "What is Data Type in C# ?"  
description: "What is Data Type in C# ?"  
author: "Gurmeet Kaur"  
published: 2018-09-21  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50059/what-is-data-type-in-c-sharp  
category: "programming"  
tags: ["c#", "data types"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Data Type in C# ?

Different types of the [data](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23186/how-becoming-a-data-analyst-can-be-a-lucrative-career) type.

Like [Heap](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159684/what-are-the-differences-between-heap-and-stack-memory-in-java) and [Stack](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/301746/why-is-stack-overflow-so-important-for-developers) etc.

## Answers

### Answer by Sanat Shukla

**Data Type:-** These data types are used to build values which are used within an application**.** Here we are discussing

datatypes in C#. These are two types of the datatype like -

1). Value Type

2). Reference Type

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