Haven't been on the forum lately since everything has been working so well ..

So, just to confirm.. Is the best way to do a deep copy of an entity still?

        IEntity2 lTargetEntity;
        MemoryStream lStream = new MemoryStream();
        BinaryFormatter lFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
        lFormatter.Serialize(lStream, sourceEntity);
        lStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
        lTargetEntity = (IEntity2) lFormatter.Deserialize(lStream);
        MarkEntityAsNew(lTargetEntity);

Thanks,

Hi,

After a search on the forum, i didn't find a easier way to do that.

Cheers,

Aurélien

Correct, a serialization is the 'best' option as you get full copies of all objects involved.

Btw Otis, why haven't you implemented your own DeepCopy into the framework? I've been thinking about this for a while so I expect you have a real interesting reason... do you?

As it would come down to a serialization of the graph and deserialization of the data into a new graph, as the overhead other wise would be too much (every object has to be copied)

So what I then could do is offer a utility method somewhere which does this, but I left that to the developer (you ) to implement that, so you perhaps could use your own serialization logic if you had that in place which perhaps was faster.