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Copy All Object Values from Another Instance of the Same Type Using Reflection

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Say that you have a collection of objects empty but for IDs.
You want to do a foreach loop through those objects and lookup detail one at a time.
Unfortunately, in the foreach, you can't replace the references, you can only copy the new detail into the object.
This technique will populate your current reference from an object instance returned by a lookup.

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//Lookup result of a higher level object which has a dogs list.   
    result.Dogs.ForEach(d => PopulateDogObject(d));     
 
//Helper
    public void PopulateDogObject(IDog toDog)
    {
        IDog lookupResult = GetDogFromWebService(toDog.DogID); 
        lookupResult.PopulateIDog(toDog); 
    }
 
 
//This is on the dog class.  
    public void PopulateIDog(IDog toDog)
        {
            PropertyInfo[] fromFields = typeof(IDog).GetProperties();
            foreach (PropertyInfo pi in fromFields)
            {
                pi.SetValue(toDog, pi.GetValue(this, null), null); 
            }
        }