I am trying to copy the entire tree (exactly all nodes) of a treeview (completely) to another treeview using this code:
TreeNodeCollection myTreeNodeCollection = treeView1.Nodes;
TreeNode[] myTreeNodeArray = new TreeNode[treeView1.Nodes.Count];
treeView1.Nodes.CopyTo(myTreeNodeArray, 0);
treeView2.Nodes.AddRange(myTreeNodeArray);
But this does not allow me to do so, it asks to either delete the nodes in source treeview or use it Clone! How can I do that? I dont want my source treeview to lose anything in this process.
** UPDATE ** Ok guys I found a complicated code (for me!!) but how can I use this?
public static T DeepTreeCopy<T>(T obj)
{
object result = null;
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
var formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
formatter.Serialize(ms, obj);
ms.Position = 0;
result = (T)formatter.Deserialize(ms); ms.Close();
}
return (T)result;
}
try this
public void Copy(TreeView treeview1, TreeView treeview2)
{
TreeNode newTn;
foreach (TreeNode tn in treeview1.Nodes)
{
newTn = new TreeNode(tn.Text, tn.Value);
CopyChilds(newTn, tn);
treeview2.Nodes.Add(newTn);
}
}
public void CopyChilds(TreeNode parent, TreeNode willCopied)
{
TreeNode newTn;
foreach (TreeNode tn in willCopied.ChildNodes)
{
newTn = new TreeNode(tn.Text, tn.Value);
parent.ChildNodes.Add(newTn);
}
}
My regards