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I have an object not written by myself that I need to clone in memory. The object is not tagged ICloneable or Serializable so deep cloning through the interface or serialization will not work. Is there anyway to deep clone this object? A non-safe win32 API call maybe?
FYI Interfaces marked as
ICloneableare not necessarily deep copied. It is up to the implementer to implementICloneableand there is no guarantee they will have cloned it.You say the object doesn’t implement
ISerializablebut does it have theSerializableattribute?Creating a deep copy via binary serialization is probably one of the easiest methods I know of, since you can clone any complex graph in 3-5 lines of code. Another option would be the
XmlSerializerif the object can beXmlSerialized(You don’t specify any attributes for serialization or implement interfaces however if there is anIDictionaryinterface your hosed.Outside of that I can’t really think of anything. If all the data is publicly accessible you could do your own cloning routine. If its not you can still clone it by using reflection to get set the private data.