Clone objects C#

Cloning is a matter between copy object and copy its references. There are two types of cloning, deep clone and shallow clone. If you copy only references it’ll call shallow copy. If you copy referenced objects it’ll call deep copy.
Shallow copy:

	Vehicle vehicleOne = new Vehicle();
	Vehicle vehicleTwo = new Vehicle();
	vehicleOne = vehicleTwo;

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Deep copy:
There are two ways of doing this.
1. Use the copy constructor (a good practice)

	class Vehicle
	{
	// Copy constructor.
	public Vehicle (Vehicle previousVehicle)
	{
	Name = previousVehicle.Name;
	Year = previousVehicle.Year;
	}
	//// Alternate copy constructor calls the instance constructor.
	//public Vehicle (Vehicle previous Vehicle)
	// : this(previousVehicle.Name, previousVehicle.Year)
	//{
	//}
	// Instance constructor.
	public Vehicle(string name, int year)
	{
	Name = name;
	Year = year;
	}
	public int Year { get; set; }
	public string Name { get; set; }
	}
	// Create a Vehicle object by using the instance constructor.
	Vehicle vehicle1 = new Vehicle("Toyota", 2014);
	// Create another Vehicle object, copying vehicle1.
	Vehicle vehicle2 = new Vehicle(person1);

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2. Using ICloneable interface
Manual way

	public class Vehicle: ICloneable
	{
	public string Name;
	public int Year;
	public object Clone()
	{
	Vehicle v = new Vehicle ();
	v.Name = this.Name;
	v.Year = this.Year;
	return v;
	}
	}

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Using memberwiseclone

	public class Vehicle : ICloneable
	{
	public string Name;
	public int Year;
	public object Clone()
	{
	return this.MemberwiseClone();
	}
	}
	//how to use
	Vehicle toyota = new Vehicle();
	Vehicle toyotaClone = (Vehicle)toyota.Clone();

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