Showing posts with label Object to Xml conversion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Object to Xml conversion. Show all posts

Tuesday 22 May 2012

Object to XML Conversion in C#


Sample XML is given below
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<note>
    <to>Sumesh</to>
    <from>Ramesh</from>
    <heading>greetings</heading>
    <body>How are you doing</body>
</note>

XML is widely using in data exchange , here is code for generic function for converting object to xml


       public static string ToXML(this object o, Type t)
        {
            string XmlizedString = null;
            MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(t);
            XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8);          
            xs.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, o);
            memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;
            XmlizedString = UTF8ByteArrayToString(memoryStream.ToArray());
            return XmlizedString;


        }

 private static String UTF8ByteArrayToString(Byte[] characters)
        {


            UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
            String constructedString = encoding.GetString(characters);
            return (constructedString);
        }