.NET: How To: Convert an object to XML string
In this article we will show you how to output an object's data to an XML string.
Posted by LazyAssCoder
on Nov 10, 2008
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Tags: XML, Object, MemoryStream, Serialization, XmlTextWriter, UTF8Encoding
If you want to write out the data that is stored in an object or custom object, here is a neat function that will output the object's data to an XML string.
VB.NET
Function ConvertObjectToXmlString(ByVal objectToConvert As Object) As String
Dim ms As New System.IO.MemoryStream()
Dim xs As New System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(objectToConvert.GetType())
Dim xtw As New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(ms, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
xs.Serialize(xtw, objectToConvert)
ms = DirectCast(xtw.BaseStream, System.IO.MemoryStream)
Return New UTF8Encoding().GetString(ms.ToArray())
End Function
C#
public string ConvertObjectToXmlString(object objectToConvert)
{
System.IO.MemoryStream ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer xs = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(objectToConvert.GetType());
System.Xml.XmlTextWriter xtw = new System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(ms, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
xs.Serialize(xtw, objectToConvert);
ms = (System.IO.MemoryStream)xtw.BaseStream;
return new UTF8Encoding().GetString(ms.ToArray());
}