Loading Object question

[NOSPAM]

I have a class, see below. what I want to do is to load the "person" object
to itself, what is the correct way to do?

public class person {
public string first_name = "";
public string last_name = "";
public string address = "";

public void loadme (person my_person) {

// (A) this works
this.first_name = ((person) my_person).first_name;

// (B) how to load the whole object to itself? this is not working.
this = my_person;

}
}
Help... please.

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Unfortunately, this is not possible. The "this" reference can not be
assigned to. You will have to copy the emembers of the my_person parameter
to your instance, and have two instances.

You might want to look into the IClonable interface, as it is what is
used to indicate that a copy of an object can be made. The semantics of
that copy (shallow or deep) is up to the implementer.

Hope this helps.
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I have a class, see below. what I want to do is to load the "person" object
to itself, what is the correct way to do?

public class person {
public string first_name = "";
public string last_name = "";
public string address = "";

public void loadme (person my_person) {

// (A) this works
this.first_name = ((person) my_person).first_name;

// (B) how to load the whole object to itself? this is not
working.
this = my_person;

}
}
Help... please.