How do you do a deep copy of an object in .NET? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Building on Kilhoffer's solution...

With C# 3.0 you can create an extension method as follows:

public static class ExtensionMethods
{
    // Deep clone
    public static T DeepClone(this T a)
    {
        using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            formatter.Serialize(stream, a);
            stream.Position = 0;
            return (T) formatter.Deserialize(stream);
        }
    }
}

which extends any class that's been marked as [Serializable] with a DeepClone method

MyClass copy = obj.DeepClone();