BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement.Clone Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.ServiceModel.Channels

Assembly:

System.ServiceModel.Primitives.dll

Package:

System.ServiceModel.Primitives v8.1.1

Source:

BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement.cs

Creates a new BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement object initialized from the current one.

C#

public override System.ServiceModel.Channels.BindingElement Clone();

Returns

BindingElement

A BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement object with property values equal to those of the current element.

Examples

C#

BindingElement bindingElement = be.Clone();

Remarks

This creates a complete copy of the current binding element object tree, also called a deep clone. A deep clone of an object creates a copy of the object and a copy of everything directly or indirectly referenced by that object. (This can also be described as copying the entire object graph.) Returning a deep clone enables the runtime to support the case in which multiple custom bindings share a custom binding element. If a deep clone is not returned, the runtime behavior is undefined.

A shallow clone of an object, by contrast, is a copy of the object only. If the object contains references to other objects, the shallow copy does not create copies of the referred objects; instead, it copies only the references to the original objects.

Applies to