Shallow Copy vs Deep Copy in .NET

Shallow Copy:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.object.memberwiseclone.aspx

// Creates a shallow copy

public object Clone()

{

return this.MemberwiseClone();

}

Deep Copy:

// Creates a deep copy

public object DeepCopy()

{

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();

BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();

formatter.Serialize(stream, this);

stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

object copy = formatter.Deserialize(stream);

stream.Close();

return copy;

}

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/ShallowVsDeepCopy.aspx