Both are keyword cause argument passed by reference. There is minor difference between both of then ref: ref keyword required that variable must be initialized before passed to function Out: Out keyword variable initialization is not required but before returning to caller function from callee is require to assign the value before returning else give compile time error. The ref and out keyword treat different in run time but same at compile time so we can’t overload method if one method have out argument and one have ref argument

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