How do I clone a generic list in C#?

Question

I have a generic list of objects in C#, and wish to clone the list. The items within the list are cloneable, but there doesn\'t seem to be an option to do list.Clone()

Answer 1

Unless you need an actual clone of every single object inside your List, the best way to clone a list is to create a new list with the old list as the collection parameter.

List myList = ...;
List cloneOfMyList = new List(myList);

Changes to myList such as insert or remove will not affect cloneOfMyList and vice versa.

The actual objects the two Lists contain are still the same however.