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Shallow and Deep Copy

What is shallow and deep copy in C#? How to perform the same in C#?

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Last Update: January 09, 2010 Asked by: a_sahayam_811572

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April 20, 2008 03:40:55

gopi2008

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RE: Shallow and Deep Copy

shallow copy copies the structure of the object deep copy copies structure as well as data.

For example consider an object called X that references objects A and B. Object B in turn references object C. A shallow copy of X creates new object X2 that also references objects A and B. In contrast a deep copy of X creates a new object X2 that references the new objects A2 and B2 which are copies of A and B. B2 in turn references the new object C2 which is a copy C. Use a class that implements the ICloneable interface to perform a deep or shallow copy of an object.

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January 09, 2010 13:06:28

ebabu

Member Since: December 2009 Contribution: 5

RE: Shallow and Deep Copy

Shallow copy make a copy of data along with it's reference for example object A has property name by making a shallow copy to object B and changes the name property value that will reflect in object A.

Deep copy is one which copies only the data and not it reference. there will not be any impact on name property of object A when the object B's chnaged.

To achive deep copy IClonable.Clone() method needs to implmented. which shloud have the implementation of this.memberwiseClone().

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