how to copy an entire object

[Joao Dias]

Hi, I am almost new here and a newbie in ASP.NET and .NET in general.

How can I make just that ?
I have tried at least 5 different ways of doing that and I just can't:

I have a data-bound Datagrid in a Web form, wich I want to save because when
I display it, I manually truncate some values (to mantain a one-line per
record
view)

If I save the Datagrid to the Session in advance, the later truncation of
values
in the Datagrid still affect the saved version; can't understand why.

It seems that is a refernce that is getting into the session, and not the
Datagrid as a whole !!

Is there a better way of doing this value formatting thing (truncate
strings), and
prevent word wrap and column resize ?

[Brock Allen]

The only way to copy an object in .NET is if the object allows you to via
supporting the IClonable interface. So if the object has a Clone method,
then you can make a copy of it.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen

Hi, I am almost new here and a newbie in ASP.NET and .NET in general.

How can I make just that ?
I have tried at least 5 different ways of doing that and I just can't:
I have a data-bound Datagrid in a Web form, wich I want to save
because when
I display it, I manually truncate some values (to mantain a one-line
per
record
view)
If I save the Datagrid to the Session in advance, the later truncation
of
values
in the Datagrid still affect the saved version; can't understand why.
It seems that is a refernce that is getting into the session, and not
the Datagrid as a whole !!

Is there a better way of doing this value formatting thing (truncate
strings), and prevent word wrap and column resize ?

[Joao Dias]

Thanks for your help.
I am still dealing with this but I think the best way should be picking just
the
values I need to preserve to another type of data structure and put that
on session. Then restoring from there (because there is no clone method
for the datagrid). If not the easy way, at least this should be reasonably
light
on resources...
"Brock Allen" wrote:

The only way to copy an object in .NET is if the object allows you to via
supporting the IClonable interface. So if the object has a Clone method,
then you can make a copy of it.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen

Hi, I am almost new here and a newbie in ASP.NET and .NET in general.

How can I make just that ?
I have tried at least 5 different ways of doing that and I just can't:
I have a data-bound Datagrid in a Web form, wich I want to save
because when
I display it, I manually truncate some values (to mantain a one-line
per
record
view)
If I save the Datagrid to the Session in advance, the later truncation
of
values
in the Datagrid still affect the saved version; can't understand why.
It seems that is a refernce that is getting into the session, and not
the Datagrid as a whole !!

Is there a better way of doing this value formatting thing (truncate
strings), and prevent word wrap and column resize ?