Creating a cloned copy of subclass from baseclass

Question

Consider this scenario:

public class Base
{
    public int i;
}

public class Sub : Base
{
    public void foo() { /* do stuff */}
}

And th

Answer 1

You could use AutoMapper to avoid the tedium of writing the copy constructors.

public class MyClass : MyBase
{
    public MyClass(MyBase source)
    {
        Mapper.Map(source, this);
    }
}

and you need to run this once when your application starts up

Mapper.CreateMap();

You can download AutoMapper from https://github.com/AutoMapper/AutoMapper