What's the meaning of ^ in VS2005.NET???

[Ming Luo]

Hi all: I am really confused about the meaning of ^ in VS2005. I see many programs declared as something like: String^ xxx; MyClass^ yyy; Can anyone explain it to me please? Thanks very much!!! Asura

Asura

[Giorgi Dalakishvili]

Why don't you have a look at MSDN?

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[Ming Luo]

Because I didn't find it.

Asura

[iddqd515]

Its called a handle. Its a form of tracking pointer. The garbage collector updates the location a handle points to if it moves the data it pointed to during compaction of the managed heap.