Generic methods for xml serialization

Serialization XML

 

       public static string Serialize<T>(T param) where T:class

        {

            try

            {

                XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));

                StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

                XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();

                ns.Add("", "");

                ser.Serialize(sw, param, ns);

                return sw.ToString();

            }

            catch

            {

                return string.Empty;

            }

        }

 

Deserialization XML

 

        public static T Deserialize<T>(string xml) where T : class

        {

            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml));

            try

            {

                XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));

                StreamReader sw = new StreamReader(stream);

                var dto = (T)ser.Deserialize(sw);

                return dto;

            }

            catch

            {

                return null;

            }

            finally

            {

                stream.Flush();

                stream.Dispose();

            }

        }