How to make a copy of a reference type [duplicate]

Answer 1

Decide how deep you want your copy and implement the ICloneable interface and Clone method: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.icloneable.aspx

Answer 2

You need to deep copy the object to another object. There are many approaches to this but serializing one object and deserializing that data into another object is a very quick trick to achieve this. See it here: How do you do a deep copy of an object in .NET (C# specifically)?