Prototype: Implementation and Example

Learn the Prototype design pattern by implementing an example program.

Creating a console application

To demonstrate the Prototype design pattern, we’ll create a .NET console application project.

When using Prototype, it would be a good practice to create an interface that we’d want any cloneable class to implement. This will make all cloneable types behave consistently. So, we’ll add the ICloneable.cs file with the following interface definition:

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