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description: "Learn more about: Boxing (C++/CLI)"
title: "Boxing (C++/CLI)"
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# Boxing (C++/CLI)

Boxing is the process of converting a value type to the type `object` or to any interface type that's implemented by the value type. When the common language runtime (CLR) boxes a value type, it wraps the value in a `System.Object` and stores it on the managed heap. Unboxing extracts the value type from the object. Boxing is implicit; unboxing is explicit.

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|Title|Description|
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|[How to: Explicitly Request Boxing](../dotnet/how-to-explicitly-request-boxing.md)|Describes how to explicitly request boxing on a variable.|
|[How to: Use gcnew to Create Value Types and Use Implicit Boxing](../dotnet/how-to-use-gcnew-to-create-value-types-and-use-implicit-boxing.md)|Shows how to use **`gcnew`** to create a boxed value type that can be placed on the managed, garbage-collected heap.|
|[How to: Unbox](../dotnet/how-to-unbox.md)|Shows how to unbox and modify a value.|
|[Standard Conversions and Implicit Boxing](../dotnet/standard-conversions-and-implicit-boxing.md)|Shows that a standard conversion is chosen by the compiler over a conversion that requires boxing.|
|[.NET Programming with C++/CLI (Visual C++)](../dotnet/dotnet-programming-with-cpp-cli-visual-cpp.md)|The top-level article for .NET programming in the Visual C++ documentation.|