Store a reference to a value type?

Question

I am writing a \"Monitor\" object to facilitate debugging of my app. This Monitor object can be accessed at run time from an IronPython interpreter. My question is, is it po

Answer 1

You can literally take a pointer to a value type using usafe code

public class Foo
{
    public int a;
}

unsafe static class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var f=new Foo() { a=1 };
        // f.a = 1

        fixed(int* ptr=&f.a)
        {
            *ptr=2;
        }
        // f.a = 2
    }
}