clone object in c#

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What is clone object and types?can give simple example ?and is possible call clone object to List ?

@Henk - why should it be avoided? Its quite practical in some instances. — Daniel A. White, Feb 11 '11 at 13:13
possible duplicate of [What does it mean to clone() an object?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1749581/what-does-it-mean-to-clone-an-object) — Henk Holterman, Feb 11 '11 at 13:13
possible duplicate of [Copy constructor versus Clone()](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3345389/copy-constructor-versus-clone) — Josh Smeaton, Feb 11 '11 at 13:14
There are hundreds of questions regarding cloning in .NET. Did you take the time to look at the questions that suggested the question may already have been asked? — Josh Smeaton, Feb 11 '11 at 13:15

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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Look here: Deep cloning objects

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 11 '11 at 13:11

A clone is a copy (i.e. a new instance). Several BCL classes implement IClonable which returns an object which should be a new instance with the values of the original.

A good sample is at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.icloneable.aspx

I don't think List<T> supports it, but you could add it, as long as the T are IClonable.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 11 '11 at 13:13

Cloning means creating another instance of your Reference type (Anything that is not a constant [integers, chars...] or a structure) so you can modify one of them without affecting the other, as just using the Equals operator or passing one of such value types would create a pseudo-pointer.

To clone your classes, just make them implement ICloneable [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.icloneable.aspx] and call the Clone() Method, casting the return type to the object type desired.

Good Luck :)

clone object in c#

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