The .Net Framework allow to clone ICloneable interface. This interface has a single method that is Clone. This interface is not available in Silverlight. The reason is that Microsoft have found that since it does not provide specification between deep copy or shallow copy that it was useless to port this interface into the Silverlight SDK. In fact, this interface has been questionable since a long time ago.

An other way to clone is to serialize and deserialize your object. By using this mechanism all references are not there but the value are. The problem, is that Silverlight does not have the System.Runtime.Serialization has you may know in the .Net standard framework. You won’t fine the the IFormatter interface neither the BinaryFormatter class.

So, how to clone an object in Silverlight?

Here is a cloning method that is an extension for every object. It uses reflection to do it’s cloning. This is not a deep copy!

public static class CloningExtension
{
    public static T Clone<T>(this T source)
    {
        T cloned = (T) Activator.CreateInstance(source.GetType());
 
        foreach (PropertyInfo curPropInfo in source.GetType().GetProperties())
        {
            if (curPropInfo.GetGetMethod() != null && (curPropInfo.GetSetMethod() != null))
            {
                // Handle Non-indexer properties
                if (curPropInfo.Name != "Item")
                {
                    // get property from source
                    object getValue = curPropInfo.GetGetMethod().Invoke(source, new object[] {});
 
                    // clone if needed
                    if (getValue != null && getValue is DependencyObject)
                        getValue = Clone((DependencyObject) getValue);
 
                    // set property on cloned
                    curPropInfo.GetSetMethod().Invoke(cloned, new object[] {getValue});
                }
                    // handle indexer
                else
                {
                    // get count for indexer
                    int numberofItemInColleciton =(int)curPropInfo.ReflectedType.GetProperty("Count").GetGetMethod().Invoke(source, new object[] {});
 
                    // run on indexer
                    for (int i = 0; i < numberofItemInColleciton; i++)
                    {
                        // get item through Indexer
                        object getValue = curPropInfo.GetGetMethod().Invoke(source, new object[] {i});
 
                        // clone if needed
                        if (getValue != null && getValue is DependencyObject)
                            getValue = Clone((DependencyObject) getValue);
                        // add item to collection
                        curPropInfo.ReflectedType.GetMethod("Add").Invoke(cloned, new object[] {getValue});
                    }
                }
            }
        }
 
        return cloned;
    }
}

If you want more information you can read this forum thread.