Deep Serialization using MemoryStream

I found this quite easy to use MemoryStream and BinaryFormatter object to provide deep copy functionality.

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Following is the code snippet for quick look:

using System.IO;

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;

public Class Test : IClonable

{

public Test()

{

}

// deep copy in separeate memory space

public
object Clone()

{

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

bf.Serialize(ms, this);

ms.Position = 0;

object obj = bf.Deserialize(ms);

ms.Close();

return obj;

}

}