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copied!<p>I'm making a filebackup-program using profiles to save settings etc. At the moment the structure is like this:</p> <p>The <code>MainForm</code> has a <code>ProfileHandler</code> that has a bunch of Profile-objects</p> <p>When you make any changes in the program (adding files to a list, changing destination path etc.) - the settings are saved in a temporary profile. So far, so good...</p> <p>But when I want to save the profile, I can't really decide which way to go. Right now I pass the temporary profile-object to an <code>AddProfile</code> method in the <code>ProfileHandler</code>. The method then creates a new profile object, using the properties from the temporary profile object as parameters (except for a <code>List<string></code>, which just copies the content with Addrange). </p> <p>It works, but is it good?</p> <pre><code>public bool AddProfile(Profile tempProfile) { if (tempProfile != null) { Profile profile = new Profile(tempProfile.Name, tempProfile.TargetPath); profile.Filelist.Clear(); profile.Filelist.AddRange(tempProfile.Filelist); _profiles.Add(profile); } return (tempProfile != null); } </code></pre> <p>Is there a slicker way of doing it? Somehow I feel there must be a simple way to just create a new instance of the <code>Profile</code> object that is a simple copy of the <code>tempProfile</code>. In my case the <code>Profile</code> class only has three fields which makes it easy, but what if it had loads of them?</p> <p>I hope I'm not too unclear. I'm a bit new at this.</p>

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