Serialize an object to string
- by Vaccano
I have the following method to save an Object to a file:
// Save an object out to the disk
public static void SerializeObject<T>(this T toSerialize, String filename)
{
XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(toSerialize.GetType());
TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(filename);
xmlSerializer.Serialize(textWriter, toSerialize);
textWriter.Close();
}
I confess I did not write it (I only converted it to a extension method that took a type parameter).
Now I need it to give the xml back to me as a string (rather than save it to a file). I am looking into it, but I have not figured it out yet.
I thought this might be really easy for someone familiar with these objects. If not I will figure it out eventually.
