How to deep copy a class without marking it as Serializable

Question

Given the following class:

class A
{
    public List ListB;

    // etc...
}

where B is another class that may inheri

Answer 1

your interface IDeepCopy is exactly what ICloneable specifies.

class B : ICloneable
{
     public object Clone() { return new B(); }
}

and with more friendly implementation :

class B : ICloneable
{
     public B Clone() { return new B(); }
     // explicit implementation of ICloneable
     object ICloneable.Clone() { return this.Clone(); }
}