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How would one do a deep copy in .NET?

By admin on Jan 8, 2007 in ASP.NET Interview Questions, Technical

System.Array.CopyTo() - Deep copies an Array

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By Vignu on Mar 25, 2007 | Reply

The First Approach.
1.Create a new instance.
2.Copy the properties from source instance to newly created instance.
[Use reflection if you want to write a common method to achive this]

The Second Approach.
1. Serialize the object and deserialize the output.
: Use binary serialization if you want private variables to be copied.
: Use xml Serialization if you dont want private variable to be copied.
By Abhishek on Mar 16, 2009 | Reply

Two or more pointers have their own Data.
class A
{
string c;
}
A a;
B b;
a=b;//deep copy