Implementing System.ICloneable and a Snippet

This will provide the necessary functions to implement ICloneable as well as a type specific Clone method.

        
Public Function Clone() As ClassName
Dim bFormatter As New System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
Dim stream As New System.IO.MemoryStream()
bFormatter.Serialize(stream, Me)
stream.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin)
Dim newClone As ClassName
newClone = CType(bFormatter.Deserialize(stream), ClassName)
Return newClone
End Function
Private Function ICloneableImplementation() As Object Implements System.ICloneable.Clone
Return Me.Clone
End Function

I wrapped this into a snippet that you can import into Visual Studio 2005.

Implement ICloneable.snippet (1.84 KB)

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