Question

Is it possible to define a member function which have the return type same as the class where it is a member.

eg:

public class Cars
{
 int Model
 int Make

  Cars CreateDeepCopy()
   {
       using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
      {
           var formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
           formatter.Serialize(ms, this);
           ms.Position = 0;
           return (Cars)formatter.Deserialize(ms);
       }

    }


  }

Answer 1

Sure, just make sure you polish the syntax to make it valid C# in order to compile and that you decorate your class with the [Serializable] attribute or you won’t be able to use a BinaryFormatter to serialize it:

[Serializable]
public class Cars
{
    public int Model;
    public int Make;

    public Cars CreateDeepCopy()
    {
        using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            var formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            formatter.Serialize(ms, this);
            ms.Position = 0;
            return (Cars)formatter.Deserialize(ms);
        }
    }
}