object assignment

Question

I have a scenario like:

MyClass obj1 = new MyClass();
............//some operations on obj1;
MyClass obj2 = new MyClass();
obj2 = obj1;

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Answer 1

KennyTM's suggestion would be the default choice. However, since you can't modify the source as you mentioned in a comment, you may need to write much code, possibly reflection if private members are involved.

If you can use an open-source library and if all types in the object graph of the to-be-cloned object have a default constructor, you can check out a utility in my library: Fasterflect's DeepClone(). This utility performs, no surprise, deep clone and handles cyclic references; the implementation is backed by CIL code generation, so no performance should be much better than hand-crafted reflection code.