Object

The Object data type can hold a reference to any object.  Using object any type of object can be referenced while you can reference specific types of objects with they type of object, such as referencing a database as a database object or a task as a task object.

Use of the Object data type is called late binding. The program does not know what object type the variable will refer to until the program runs and a reference is actually assigned to the variable. This slows things down a bit, although not significantly.