Difference Between Structure and Class?

Difference Between Structure and Class?

Structure	Class
Structure is a Value type and stored in stack.	Class is a reference type and stored in heap.
Structures do not support inheritance.	Classes support inheritance.
By default all members of Structure are public.	In case of Class, all constants and variables are private while other members of the Class are public by default.
Structure members can't be declared Protected.	Class members can be declared Protected.
A Structure cannot be fully empty.	A Class can be fully empty.
A Structure does not need a constructor.	A Class needs a constructor.
Finalize method is never called for Structures as they are never terminated.	Finalize method is called for Classes as they are terminated by GC (Garbage collector) that calls the Finalize method.
Even after assigning the value nothing to a Structure variable, instance continues to be associated with the variable and we can access its data members.	In Class, if we assign nothing to object variable we cannot access any member through the variable until you assign another instance to it.
Boxing of a Structure object creates a copy of the object in a different type.	Boxing a Class object creates a reference (of different type) to the same object.
Structure are value type it is not possible to assign null to a Structure object.	Classes are reference type so it is possible to assign null value to Class object.