CloneContents Method

Wintellect PowerCollections

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Makes a deep clone of this dictionary. A new dictionary is created with a clone of each entry of this dictionary, by calling ICloneable.Clone on each element. If TKey or TValue is a value type, then each element is copied as if by simple assignment.

Namespace: Wintellect.PowerCollections
Assembly: PowerCollections (in PowerCollections.dll)

Syntax

C#
public OrderedDictionary<TKey, TValue> CloneContents()

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Function CloneContents As OrderedDictionary(Of TKey, TValue)

Visual C++
public: OrderedDictionary<TKey, TValue>^ CloneContents ()

Return Value

The cloned dictionary.

Remarks

If TKey or TValue is a reference type, it must implement ICloneable. Otherwise, an InvalidOperationException is thrown.

Cloning the dictionary takes time O(N log N), where N is the number of keys in the dictionary.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
System..::InvalidOperationException	TKey or TValue is a reference type that does not implement ICloneable.