Add copy constructors and Clone methods to the various .NET config option bags #422
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Consuming libraries like Agent Framework sometimes have a need to clone the various options bags, e.g. their caller passes in options and that middle library needs to tweak the settings before passing them along (e.g. set Streaming to true or false) but it doesn't want to mutate the caller's object. Without clone methods, such libraries need to manually copy every property, which then means when new properties are added, they get ignored and options are lost.
This PR adds such public Clone methods, and accomodates the non-sealed nature of the types by adding protected copy constructors that the virtual Clone methods use. (If instead we want to seal these types, that'd be viable as well.)