I'm trying to clone instances of a derived class, but somehow it doesn't work well. The cloning method is:
public static T CloneFieldsAndProperties<T>(T input)
{
T result = (T)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(T));
PropertyInfo[] listOfProps = typeof(T).GetProperties(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy | BindingFlags.CreateInstance);
FieldInfo[] listOfFields = typeof(T).GetFields(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy | BindingFlags.CreateInstance);
foreach (PropertyInfo prop in listOfProps) prop.SetValue(result, prop.GetValue(input, null), null);
foreach (FieldInfo field in listOfFields) field.SetValue(result, field.GetValue(input));
return result;
}
As you can see, I added many BindingFlags
because it wasn't working. But to no avail.
It does work in a simple case:
MyclassA1 a1 = new MyclassA1();
MyclassA a = CloneFieldsAndProperties(a1);
if (a is MyclassA1) Text = "Works";
Where:
class MyclassA
{
public int i;
}
class MyclassA1 : MyclassA
{
public int i1;
}
But in my real program it doesn't. The real program's classes' declarations are long so I'm not posting them here. What might be the problem?