Microsoft .NET supports value types for performance reasons - but everything in .NET is ultimately an object. Value types are allocated on the stack by default - but they can always be converted into a heap-based - reference-type object. What is this conversion called?

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Microsoft .NET supports value types for performance reasons - but everything in .NET is ultimately an object. Value types are allocated on the stack by default - but they can always be converted into a heap-based - reference-type object. What is this conversion called?