Cloning objects without Serialization
I've found numerous solutions here at SO and elsewere that deal with deep clone of object via serialization/deserialization (into memory and back). It requires that classes to be cloned are marked with [Serializable] . I happen to have my classes (well most of them) marked with [DataContract] because I use DataContractSerializer to serialize into XML. I only introduced [Serializable] attribute because of the need for deep clone of some of these class instances. However, now something happened to serialization/deserialization via the DCS because it does not work anymore - errors about expecting