Method to convert a custom Object to XML string - CSharp System.Xml

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Description

Method to convert a custom Object to XML string

Demo Code


using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Xml;
using System.Web;
using System.Text;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;//from  w ww  .  j a v a 2  s. c o m
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;

public class Main{
        ///<summary>
        /// Method to convert a custom Object to XML string
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pObject">Object that is to be serialized to XML</param>
        /// <param name="objectType"></param>
        /// <returns>XML string</returns>
        public static String SerializeObject(Object pobject, Type objectType)
        {
            try
            {
                String XmlizedString = null;
                MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
                XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
                settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
                settings.Indent = true;
                XmlSerializerNamespaces namespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
                namespaces.Add(string.Empty, string.Empty);

                //XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(objectType);
                XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializerCache()[objectType];
                XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8);

                xs.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, pobject, namespaces);
                memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;
                XmlizedString = UTF8ByteArrayToString(memoryStream.ToArray());

                return XmlizedString;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw e;
            }
        }
}

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