How to make a copy of a reference type

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I have a class with properties and some of them are reference types (instances of other classes) themselves (CookieContainer).

I want to have a exact copy of this class so any change to previous version would not affect this new instance.

Is there a general solution for this kind of problems or I should do it manually ?

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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You need to deep copy the object to another object. There are many approaches to this but serializing one object and deserializing that data into another object is a very quick trick to achieve this. See it here: How do you do a deep copy of an object in .NET (C# specifically)?

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score -2 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 06 '22 at 13:57

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Decide how deep you want your copy and implement the ICloneable interface and Clone method: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.icloneable

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