How To Convert XML To String In C#

In this blog, you will learn how to convert XML to string In C#.

To achieve this, we can use the XmlWriter class provided by the following namespaces: "System.Xml" and "System.Xml.Serialization". Here is a custom code snippet, where the first parameter is the generic type and the second parameter is the null-able XmlWriterSettings.

public static string SerializeObject<T>(T typeObj, XmlWriterSettings settings = null)
        {
            if (typeObj == null)
            {
                return string.Empty;
            }
            try
            {
                using (var stringWriter = new StringWriter())
                {
                    using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(stringWriter, settings))
                    {
                        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
                        serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, typeObj);
                        return stringWriter.ToString();
                    }
                }
            }
            catch
            {
                return string.Empty;
            }
        }