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Creates a shallow copy of the Hashtable.
Namespace: System.Collections
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Public Function Clone As Object
public Object Clone()
public:
virtual Object^ Clone() sealed
abstract Clone : unit -> Object
override Clone : unit -> Object
public final function Clone() : Object
Return Value
Type: System. . :: . .Object
A shallow copy of the Hashtable.
Implements
ICloneable. . :: . .Clone() () () ()
Remarks
A shallow copy of a collection copies only the elements of the collection, whether they are reference types or value types, but it does not copy the objects that the references refer to. The references in the new collection point to the same objects that the references in the original collection point to.
In contrast, a deep copy of a collection copies the elements and everything directly or indirectly referenced by the elements.
The Hashtable clone has the same count, the same capacity, the same IHashCodeProvider implementation, and the same IComparer implementation as the original Hashtable.
This method is an O(n) operation, where n is Count.
.NET Framework Security
- Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see dd66cd4c-b087-415f-9c3e-94e3a1835f74.