Copy C# object along with reference [duplicate]

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Cloning objects in C#

I have an object created in c# say Object1. I need to temporarily back up this object to another object say ObjectOriginal.

However if I do ObjectOriginal = Object1, any changes to Object 1 affect ObjectOriginal. How do I go about this?

Answer 1

It all depends on what Object1 actually is, i.e. is it a DataTable, a String, or something else entirely?

By writing:

object Object1 = new Thing();
object Object2 = Object1;

You get a second reference to the object you instantiated in the first line. What you need to do is look at "Thing" and see if it has a Copy, Clone or similarly named method and use that:

object Object1 = new Thing();
object Object2 = Object1.Copy();

For example, DataTable offers both Copy and Clone methods, where Copy duplicates both the structure of the DataTable and the data and Clone only duplicates the structure.