Writing a clone method using DataContractSerializer

Here is code sample which uses DataContractSerializer to Clone any DTO object which is used between WCF Service & Client.

It serializes source object into a XML string and then convert back sane XML string to another object of passed type.

 public static T Clone<T>(T source)     
        {
            string objectstr;
            
            using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream()) 
            { 
                DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(source.GetType()); 
                serializer.WriteObject(memoryStream, source); 
                objectstr = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray()); 
            }
 
            using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(objectstr))) 
            { 
                XmlDictionaryReader reader = XmlDictionaryReader.CreateTextReader(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8, new XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas(), null); 
                DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(source.GetType()); 
                return (T) serializer.ReadObject(reader); 
            }
 
        }