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An assignment operator is the operator used to assign a new value to a variable, property, event or indexer element in C# programming language. Assignment operators can also be used for logical operations such as bitwise logical operations or operations on integral operands and Boolean operands.
Unlike in C++, assignment operators in C# cannot be overloaded directly, but the user-defined types can overload the operators like +, -, /, etc. This allows the assignment operator to be used with those types.
The following are the characteristics of assignment operators:
In C#, an expression using an assignment operator might be "x op y", where x and y are operands and "op" represents the operator. The simple assignment operator "=" is used to store the value of its right-hand operand into the memory location denoted by the left-hand operand. The result is its return value. The other assignment operators that perform indicated operation on the two operands and assign a resulting value to the left operand are called compound assignment operators. These include:
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