merging two objects in C#

Question

I have an object model MyObject with various properties. At one point, I have two instances of these MyObject: instance A and instance B. I\'d like to copy and replace the p

Answer 1

I've written my own class for this purpose: ObjectMerger.

Basically it uses reflections (and may be slow because of that). It also contains more features e.g. parsing objects for cyclic references and merge them too. My ObjectMerger also contains mechanism to handle more complex classes like Delegate or MemberInfo. Those will be copied completely, other objects in the class are recursively merged.

The Syntax is like:

var initialInstance = new MyObjectBase(); // Initialize first object
var properInstance = new MyObjectWithAlgorithms(); // Initialize second object
var result = ObjectMerger.MergeObjects(properInstance, initialInstance); // Merge Objects into type of "properInstance"

I'm sorry to say that it is NOT FOR USE AS IS, because some external libraries are missing in the repository at the moment due to limitations in my company, but they can easily be rewritten. I hope a can add them in future.