I Suggest this helper class:
public static class Xml
{
#region Fields
private static readonly XmlWriterSettings WriterSettings = new XmlWriterSettings {OmitXmlDeclaration = true, Indent = true};
private static readonly XmlSerializerNamespaces Namespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new[] {new XmlQualifiedName("", "")});
#endregion
#region Methods
public static string Serialize(object obj)
{
if (obj == null)
{
return null;
}
return DoSerialize(obj);
}
private static string DoSerialize(object obj)
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(ms, WriterSettings))
{
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType());
serializer.Serialize(writer, obj, Namespaces);
return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
}
}
public static T Deserialize<T>(string data)
where T : class
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(data))
{
return null;
}
return DoDeserialize<T>(data);
}
private static T DoDeserialize<T>(string data) where T : class
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data)))
{
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof (T));
return (T) serializer.Deserialize(ms);
}
}
#endregion
}
:)