I need to perform deep cloning on my complex object model. What do you think is the best way to do that in .Net?
I thought about serializing / Deserializing
no need
Example of deep cloning from msdn magazine:
Object DeepClone(Object original)
{
// Construct a temporary memory stream
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
// Construct a serialization formatter that does all the hard work
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
// This line is explained in the "Streaming Contexts" section
formatter.Context = new StreamingContext(StreamingContextStates.Clone);
// Serialize the object graph into the memory stream
formatter.Serialize(stream, original);
// Seek back to the start of the memory stream before deserializing
stream.Position = 0;
// Deserialize the graph into a new set of objects
// and return the root of the graph (deep copy) to the caller
return (formatter.Deserialize(stream));
}