The ICloneable interface contains one member, Clone, which is intended to support cloning beyond that supplied by MemberwiseClone. It is a procedure that can create a true, distinct copy of an object and all its dependent object, is to rely on the serialization features of the .NET framework.

There are two ways to clone an instance:

An instance is an actual object created to the specification defined by a class.

  1. Shallow copy - may be linked to data shared by both the original and the copy
  2. Deep copy - contains the complete encapsulated data of the original object

Syntex

Code
[ComVisibleAttribute(true)]
public interface ICloneable

Example

using System;
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Data;
 using System.Diagnostics;
public class value : ICloneable
{
public int i;
public int j;

public value(int aa, int bb)
{
i = aa;
j = bb;
}

public string ToString()
{
return "(" + i + "," + j + ")";
}

public virtual object Cloning()
{
return new value(i, j);
}
object ICloneable.Clone()
{
return Cloning();
}
}

Output

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