Copy Entity Framework Object

Question

I have a EF4.1 class X and I want to make copy of that plus all its child records. X.Y and X.Y.Z

Now if I do the following it returns error.

The property \'X.ID\

Answer 1

You need to make correct deep copy of the whole entity graph - the best way is to serialize the original entity graph to memory stream and deserialize it to a new instance. Your entity must be serializable. It is often used with DataContractSerializer but you can use binary serialization as well.