What is the difference between a C# Reference and a Pointer?

Question

I do not quite understand the difference between a C# reference and a pointer. They both point to a place in memory don\'t they? The only difference I can figure out is that

Answer 1

Pointers point to a location in the memory address space. References point to a data structure. Data structures all moved all the time (well, not that often, but every now and then) by the garbage collector (for compacting memory space). Also, as you said, data structures without references will get garbage collected after a while.

Also, pointers are only usable in unsafe context.