How to deep copy between objects of different types in C#.NET

Question

I have a requirement to map all of the field values and child collections between ObjectV1 and ObjectV2 by field name. ObjectV2 is in a different namspace to ObjectV1.

Answer 1

If if you control the instantiation of the destination object, try using JavaScriptSerializer. It doesn't spit out any type information.

new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(new NamespaceA.Person{Id = 1, Name = "A"})

returns

{Id: 1, Name: "A"}

From this it should possible to deserialize any class with the same property names.