Convert Object to XML in C#

Add following name space:

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

Then add below code in class file




/// <summary>

/// Serializes a class to xml text

/// </summary>

/// <param name="item">Class to be converted to XML</param>

/// <returns>XML string representing class</returns>

public static string SerializeObjectToXML(object item)

{

    try

    {

        string xmlText;

        //Get the type of the object

        Type objectType = item.GetType();

        //create serializer object based on the object type

        XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(objectType);

        //Create a memory stream handle the data

        MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();

        //Create an XML Text writer to serialize data to

        using (XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter =

            new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8)

                { Formatting = Formatting.Indented })

        {

            //convert the object to xml data

            xmlSerializer.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, item);

            //Get reference to memory stream

            memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;

            //Convert memory byte array into xml text

            xmlText = new UTF8Encoding().GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());

            //clean up memory stream

            memoryStream.Dispose();

            return xmlText;

        }

    }

    catch (Exception e)

    {

        //There are a number of reasons why this function may fail

        //usually because some of the data on the class cannot

        //be serialized.

        System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(e.ToString());

        return string.empty;

    }

}