/// <summary>
/// Clone a person object by manually typing the copy statements.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="p">Object to clone</param>
/// <returns>Cloned object</returns>
private static ILPerson CloneNormal(ILPerson p)
{
ILPerson newPerson = new ILPerson();
newPerson.ID = p.ID;
newPerson.Name = p.Name;
newPerson.FirstName = p.FirstName;
return(newPerson);
}
/// <summary>
/// Create a list of persons with random data and a given number of items.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="count">Number of persons to generate</param>
/// <returns>List of generated persons</returns>
private static List <ILPerson> CreatePersonsList(int count)
{
Random r = new Random(Environment.TickCount);
List <ILPerson> persons = new List <ILPerson>(count);
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
ILPerson p = new ILPerson();
p.ID = r.Next();
p.Name = string.Concat("Slaets_", r.Next());
p.FirstName = string.Concat("Filip_", r.Next());
persons.Add(p);
}
return(persons);
}
/// <summary>
/// Clone one person object with reflection
/// </summary>
/// <param name="p">Person to clone</param>
/// <returns>Cloned person</returns>
private static ILPerson CloneObjectWithReflection(ILPerson p)
{
// Get all the fields of the type, also the privates.
FieldInfo[] fis = p.GetType().GetFields(System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);
// Create a new person object
ILPerson newPerson = new ILPerson();
// Loop through all the fields and copy the information from the parameter class
// to the newPerson class.
foreach (FieldInfo fi in fis)
{
fi.SetValue(newPerson, fi.GetValue(p));
}
// Return the cloned object.
return(newPerson);
}
