^ sign in Visual C++?

Question

Programming

I have been programming in C/C++ for a long time and used "classical" constructions.
This week there was a need to make a tiny program for Windows. Especially for this, I downloaded MS Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express
. It generated a form for me, a code for it. And among the declaration of members of the form class, I see the ^ sign all the time. Example:
private: System::Windows::Forms::Label^ label3;
Can you tell me what this "^" sign means? I couldn't find it quickly, I don't know the keyword.

Answer 1

these are links served by a pre-net garbage collector instead of the traditional CRT

Answer 2

Reference to GC object

Answer 3

A good topic on the topic habrahabr.ru/blogs/net/111071/