How to serialize an object to XML string?

ByAnkush Jain| Last Updated On Saturday, Aug 05, 2017

.NET

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You can use below method to serialize an object to XML string.

Namespaces required:

using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.IO;

Method definition:

public string GetXMLString<T>(T objectToSerialize)
{
      XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(objectToSerialize.GetType());

      using (StringWriter stringWriter = new System.IO.StringWriter())
      {
            xmlSerializer.Serialize(stringWriter, objectToSerialize);
            return stringWriter.ToString();
      }
}