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

Value types go on the stack, reference types go on the heap. A struct is a value type.

There is no guaruantee about this in the specification though, so it might change in future releases:)