XML Serialization code example

Example: XML Serialization

/// 

/// Converts an object to its serialized XML format.
/// 
/// The type of object we are operating on
/// The object we are operating on
/// Whether or not to remove the default XML namespaces from the output
/// Whether or not to omit the XML declaration from the output
/// The character encoding to use
/// The XML string representation of the object
public static string ToXmlString(this T value, bool removeDefaultXmlNamespaces = true, bool omitXmlDeclaration = true, Encoding encoding = null) where T : class
{
    XmlSerializerNamespaces namespaces = removeDefaultXmlNamespaces ? new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new[] { XmlQualifiedName.Empty }) : null;
 
    var settings                = new XmlWriterSettings();
    settings.Indent             = true;
    settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = omitXmlDeclaration;
    settings.CheckCharacters    = false;
 
    using (var stream = new StringWriterWithEncoding(encoding))
    using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(stream, settings))
    {
        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(value.GetType());
        serializer.Serialize(writer, value, namespaces);
        return stream.ToString();
    }
}