Shallow copy or Deep copy?

Question

I am a bit new to these two methods of copying one object into the other. I am confused and unable to spot out the major difference between deep copy and shallow copy.. I ha

Answer 1

It's a shallow copy because if you modify the variable of ob2 - and then try and print ob1 - they will be the same. This is because things in C# that are classes create links between themselves. If you want to do a deep copy, you should implement a copy method and copy the fields by hand. Something like:

  class A
    {
        public int a = 0;
        public void display()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("The value of a is " + a);
        }

       public A Copy()
    {
        A a = new A();
        a.a = = this.a;
        return a;
    }



    }