Updated on Kisan Patel
When you develop a program, you occasionally need to work with different types of data, such as numeric, Boolean, and string.
C# has its own set of types, known as data types, to store different types of values.
There are two kinds of data types in C#.
Holds the data within its own memory allocation. Value type includes the following data types.
Contains a pointer to another memory location that holds the data. Reference type includes the following data types.
The different data types available in C# are listed in below tables.
| C# Data type | .Net Data type | Size (bytes) | Value Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| byte | Byte | 1 | 0 to 255 (unsigned) |
| short | Int16 | 2 | -32,768 t0 32,767 (signed) |
| int | Int32 | 4 | -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,487,647 |
| long | Int64 | 8 | -9,223,372,036,854,775,808to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 |
| float | Single | 4 | |
| double | Double | 8 | |
| bool | Boolean | 1 | true or false |
| char | Char | 2 | contains any single character enclosed in single quotation mark. e.g. 'a' |
| decimal | Decimal | 12 |