How to Clone a Class instance without reference?

Question

Hi All,

 

I'm trying to clone a class instance, which have rich collection of internal property values. Theses data are fetched from the database. I want to clone this instance in which the changes made in that instance will not affect the real one time created instance. Please refer the below code snippet:

 

public class DB_Data
    {
        public DB_Data Data
        { get; internal set; }

        public DB_Data()
        { }

        public void DB_Schema()
        {
            // code to get data from DataBase;
        }
    }

 Now, I want a copy/clone of the instance which contains the DataBase data. My problem is, when I assign a new set of values to the instance, the referred instance value gets affected. Since the info fetched form the data base is a complex process, I don't want the copy variable to be initialized with real-data base info by repeated function call to the method DB_Schema(). is there any way to do this?

 

Kindly share your ideas. Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

Amresh S.