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Deep clone an object in .NET
There are two types of object cloning; deep and shallow.
A shallow clone creates a new instance of the same type as the original object, with all its value-typed fields copied. However, the reference type fields still point to the original objects; and so the "new" object and the original reference to the same object. On the other hand, a deep clone of an object contains a full copy of everything directly or indirectly referenced by the object - and so you get a "true" copy.
One of the easiest ways to deep-copy an object is to serialize the object into memory and de-serialize it again - although this does require the object graph to be serializable. Here's a handy code snippet to do this:
public static object CloneObject(object obj)
{
using (MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream())
{
BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter(null,
new StreamingContext(StreamingContextStates.Clone));
binaryFormatter.Serialize(memStream, obj);
memStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
return binaryFormatter.Deserialize(memStream);
}
}
You could then implement the ICloneable interface on your object like so:
public class MyObject : ICloneable {
public object Clone()
{
return ObjectUtility.CloneObject(this);
}
...
}
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it seems you have used the IFormatter class for serialization instead of Xml Serialization, great code specially in a time where sell own software sites are very popular
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