Faster deep cloning

Question

Does anyone want a framework/class which allows me to clone by values .Net objects? I\'m only interested with public read/write properties (namely DataContracts), and I don\

Answer 1

I don't know whether this suits your requirements exactly, but you could also create a deep clone using a BinaryFormatter. See this answer to a related question (by Binoj Antony):

public static class GenericCopier
{
    public static T DeepCopy(object objectToCopy)
    {
        using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            binaryFormatter.Serialize(memoryStream, objectToCopy);
            memoryStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
            return (T) binaryFormatter.Deserialize(memoryStream);
        }
    }
}