References in VB.NET

Question

Somewhat unclear to me are references (pointers?) to classes in VB.NET. The question I am about to ask can be answered by a little bit of testing, but I was wondering if any

Answer 1

Like said above, setting a object variable equal to another just sets the "pointer" to an instance of the same object in memory, if you want to clone the object look at implementing the iCloneable interface with something like

Public Function Clone() As Object Implements ICloneable.Clone
Return Me.MemberwiseClone()
End Function

With and when you allocation the object use the clone method

Dim tempClass as ReferenceClass = Reference.Clone