Deep Copy a .NET Class Instance Without Serialization

Question

I am using an instance class from a third-party DLL, and I need to do a deep copy on a particular instance. The class is not marked as Serializable, and therefore

Answer 1

One suggestion is to use Json serialization (which uses reflection, and doesn't rely on the [Serializable] attribute) to serialize and deserialize into a copy. For example, using the Json.Net library:

var copiedObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(
    JsonConvert.SerializeObject(sourceSnapshotObject));