Mid Collections

How do you perform deep cloning or deep copying of a collection in C#?

  • Deep cloning copies the collection and all objects inside it recursively.
  • Ways to deep clone:
  • Implement ICloneable in your objects with deep clone logic.
  • Use serialization (binary, XML, JSON) to serialize and deserialize objects.
  • Manually create new instances of each item.

Example (manual):

List<MyClass> DeepClone(List<MyClass> original)

return original.Select(item => item.Clone()).ToList();

Note: MyClass must implement a Clone() method that performs deep copy.

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