Why are structs stored on the stack while classes get stored on the heap(.NET)?

Question

I know that one of the differences between classes and structs is that struct instances get stored on stack and class instances(objects) are stored on the heap.

Sinc

Answer 1

That's a great question; I did not cover it in the article that Marc Gravell linked to. Here's part two:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ericlippert/the-stack-is-an-implementation-detail-part-two