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what is meant by shallow copying in .net ?

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Please explain shallow copying in .net
Oct 21 '10 #1
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Hugo Dahl
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The difference between a "shallow" copy and a "deep" copy is in the number of levels of nested objects/items are copied.

For example, presume you have a object with a structure as follows:

Person
-FirstName (string)
-LastName (string)
-PhoneNumber (string)
-Children (Collection<Person>)

In the case of a shallow copy, only the FirstName, LastName and PhoneNumber (first level properties) would/should be copied. In the case of a deep copy, you would recurse through all the child objects and create copies of those as well into the new object.
Oct 23 '10 #2
nagmvs
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Thanku for ur reply hugo.
Oct 23 '10 #3

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