what is meant by shallow copying in .net ?

[nagmvs]

Please explain shallow copying in .net

[Hugo Dahl]

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<Pers on>)

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.

[nagmvs]

Thanku for ur reply hugo.