Duplicate Object and working with Duplicate without changing Original

Question

Assuming I have an Object ItemVO in which there a bunch of properties already assigned. eg:

ItemVO originalItemVO = new ItemVO();
originalItemVO.ItemId = 1;         


        

Answer 1

To duplicate an object by value instead of reference, you can serialize it (e.g. JSON) and then deserialize it right after. You then have a copy by value.

Here's an example

ItemVO originalItemVO = new ItemVO();
originalItemVO.ItemId = 1;
originalItemVO.ItemCategory = "ORIGINAL";

string json = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(originalItemVO); 
ItemVO duplicateItemVO = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);