Answer by xhafan for Serialize an object to string

I know this is not really an answer to the question, but based on the number of votes for the question and the accepted answer, I suspect the people are actually using the code to serialize an object to a string.

Using XML serialization adds unnecessary extra text rubbish to the output.

For the following class

public class UserData{    public int UserId { get; set; }}

it generates

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><UserData xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><UserId>0</UserId></UserData>

Better solution is to use JSON serialization (one of the best is Json.NET).To serialize an object:

var userData = new UserData {UserId = 0};var userDataString = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(userData);

To deserialize an object:

var userData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<UserData>(userDataString);

The serialized JSON string would look like:

{"UserId":0}