C# Object Cloning Snippets

c#_snippets_1.cs

// Source - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a967b44b-c85c-4afd-a499-f6ff604e2139/how-to-cloneduplicate-an-entity?forum=adodotnetentityframework
private static T DataContractSerialization<T>(T obj) {
    DataContractSerializer dcSer = new DataContractSerializer(obj.GetType());
    MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();

    dcSer.WriteObject(memoryStream, obj);
    memoryStream.Position = 0;

    T newObject = (T)dcSer.ReadObject(memoryStream);
    return newObject;
}