Question

I’ve been working with C# for many years now, but just come across this issue that’s stumping me, and I really don’t even know how to ask the question, so, to the example!

public interface IAddress
{
  string Address1 { get; set; }
  string Address2 { get; set; }
  string City { get; set; }
  ...
}

public class Home : IAddress
{
  // IAddress members
}

public class Work : IAddress
{
  // IAddress members
}

My question is, I want to copy the value of the IAddress properties from one class to another. Is this possible in a simple one-line statement or do I still have to do a property-to-property assignment of each one? I’m actually quite surprised that this seemingly simple thing has stumped me like it has… If it’s not possible in a concise way, does anyone have any shortcuts they use to do this sort of thing?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There’s no one-liner for this.

If you do it a lot, you could look into some form of code generation, perhaps using T4 templates and Reflection.

BTW COBOL has a statement for this: MOVE CORRESPONDING HOME TO WORK.