Is there a fast way to transfer all the variables of one identical object into another in C#?

Question

This is probably a simple question. Suppose I have a object called Users and it contains a lot of protected variables.

Inside that Users class I have a method that creates a temporary Users object, does something with it, and if successful, transfers all the variables from the temp Users object into the one I have.

Is there some fast way to transfer all the variables from one Users object into another Users object without doing this using C#?

this.FirstName = temp.FirstName;
this.LastName = temp.LastName;
........75 variables later......
this.FavoriteColor = temp.FavoriteColor

Answer 1

A better approach is to implement the IClonable interface. But you'll find it doesn't save you a lot of work.

Answer 2

You should check out cloning in C#.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78536/cloning-objects-in-c

Answer 3

A better solution might be to move whatever this method is outside of your class, and then just assign the temp user object to your main user object reference like so:

_User = tmpUser;

sparing you the 75 lines of code. Whenever I have a class creating an instance of itself inside one of its own methods, I always like to blink a couple of times and make sure I really need to be doing that.

Answer 4

I think serializing and then deserializing an object will create a new object instance. This should be identical to the former object.