Does passing a value type in an “out” parameter cause the variable to be boxed?

Question

I\'m aware that boxing and unboxing are relatively expensive in terms of performance. What I\'m wondering is:

Does passing a value type to a method\'s out

Answer 1

There is no boxing; what the out parameter does is specifies that number must be assigned to within the TryParse method. Irrespective of this, it is still treated as an int, not an object.