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

If a shallow copy is enough, you can use the MemberwiseClone method.

Example:

MyObject shallowClone = (MyObject)original.MemberwiseClone();

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If you need a deep copy, you can serialize/deserialize like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78612/1105687

An example (assuming you write an extension method as suggested in that answer, and you call it DeepClone)

MyObject deepClone = original.DeepClone();