Difference between Shallow and Deep copy

Difference between Shallow and Deep copy:

Shallow Copy:

Shallow copies duplicate as little as possible. A shallow copy of a collection is a copy of the collection structure, not the elements. With a shallow copy, two collections now share the individual elements.

Shallow Copy points to the same location in memory as Source does.

Value type:  Copy of the field is performed

Reference type: The reference is copied NOT the object so original object

and its Shallow Copy refer to the same object.

Deep Copy:

Deep copies duplicate everything structure and element both. A deep copy of a collection is two collections with all of the elements in the original collection duplicated.

Deep Copy points to a different location in memory, but the elements are the same.

Value type: Copy of the field is performed

Reference type: The object itself is copied, NOT only the reference so original object and its Deep Copy refer to two different object.

Example:

var realdata = { FName="ask", LName="dotnet" };

var shallow = ShallowCopyOf(realdata);

var deep = DeepCopyOf(realdata);

realdata.LName = ".net";

WriteLine(realdata.LName); // outputà .net

WriteLine(shallow.LName); // outputà .net

WriteLine(deep.LName); // outputà dotnet