An abstract base class for flyweight data value containers. More precisely, a DataValue instance contains a value of a particular DataType, and thus every DataValue has a corresponding DataType. (This is not necessarily true for the methods marked Obsolete in this class.) Instances of the generic subclass are normally used, often explicitly, and this non-generic base class is provided only for convenience in contexts where the generic type is not known, or variable. Note that this class is intended as a flyweight, that is, as a reusable container. This means that it is not optimized for memory and is unsuitable for representing arrays or matrices of data values, where a separate DataValue instance is used for each cell. Consider using a more compact representation of the values for such purposes. The DataValue class is not serializable and should not be used for persistent storage.

public abstract class DataValue

public abstract class DataValue