Clone Whole Object Graph

Question

While using this code to serialize an object:

public object Clone()
{
    var serializer = new DataContractSerializer(GetType());
    using (var ms = new Sys         


        

Answer 1

Either annotate your classes with [DataContract] or add your child types in the constructor of DatacontractSerializer.

var knownTypes = new List {typeof(Class1), typeof(Class2), ..etc..};
var serializer = new DataContractSerializer(GetType(), knownTypes);