ICloneable.Clone Method

I am copying this information from the community documentation for Object.Memberwise clone, as it seems rather important to the documentation of this class.

Although the ICloneable interface can be implemented to perform a deep copy operation, the interface itself does not require that that the ICloneable.Clone method perform a deep copy. Because of this, developers have been urged to avoid implementing ICloneable. For more information, see Brad Abrams' blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2004/05/03/125427.aspx.

--Ron Petrusha
Common Language Runtime Developer Content
Microsoft Corporation

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace ICloneableTest
{
    class Student : ICloneable
    {
        private string firstName;
        private string lastName;
        private string regNo;

        public string RegNo
        {
            get { return regNo; }
            set { this.regNo = value; }
        }

        public string LastName
        {
            get { return lastName; }
            set { this.lastName = value; }
        }

        public string FirstName
        {
            get { return firstName; }
            set { this.firstName = value; }
        }

        public Student(string _firstName, string _lastName, string _regNo)
        {
            this.firstName = _firstName;
            this.lastName = _lastName;
            this.regNo = _regNo;
        }

        #region ICloneable Members

        public object Clone()
        {
            return this.MemberwiseClone();
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

===============================================
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace ICloneableTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Create Student.
            Student student1 = new Student("abc", "pqr", "xyz");
            //Clone Student1.
            Student student2 = (Student)student1.Clone();
            //Here you can see it gives same value.
            Console.WriteLine("Before we change student1s first name");
            Console.WriteLine(student1.FirstName + " " + student2.FirstName);
            //By changing one objects property, you can understand they are not same reference.
            student1.FirstName = "ABC";
            Console.WriteLine("After we changed student1s first name");
            Console.WriteLine(student1.FirstName + " " + student2.FirstName);
            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}

to implement this in c++ you have to use:

virtual

System::Object^ Clone();