Best way to create instance of child object from parent object

Question

I\'m creating a child object from a parent object. So the scenario is that I have an object and a child object which adds a distance property for scenarios where I want to s

Answer 1

You can use reflection to copy properties.

public class ChildClass : ParentClass
{


    public ChildClass(ParentClass ch)
    {
        foreach (var prop in ch.GetType().GetProperties())
        {
            this.GetType().GetProperty(prop.Name).SetValue(this, prop.GetValue(ch, null), null);
        }
    }
}