How to make a shallow copy of an array?

Question

I pass a two-dimensional array as a property to my user control. There I store this values in another two-dimensional array:

int[,] originalValues = this.Met         


        

Answer 1

If you want to deep copy an array of reference types, you can do this methodology:

Implement IClonable iterface for your class and do your deep copy of all value typed fields inside to another constructed object.

class A: ICloneable {
     int field1;
     public object Clone()
        {
            A a= new A();
            //copy your fields here 
            a.field1 = this.field1;
            ...
        }
}

Then you can do the actual copy using

A[] array1 = new A[]{....};
A[] array2 = array1.Select(a => a.Clone()).ToList();