How To Convert String To XML In C#

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

To achieve this, we can use the XmlWriter class provided by the following namespaces: "System.Xml", "System.Xml.Serialization" and "System.IO". Here is a custom code snippet, where the first parameter is the string and return type of method is generic T.

public static T Deserialize<T>(string xml)
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(xml)) throw new NotSupportedException("Empty string!!");

            try
            {
                var xmlserializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
                var stringReader = new StringReader(xml);
                using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(stringReader))
                {
                    return (T)xmlserializer.Deserialize(reader);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw new Exception(e.Message);
            }
        }

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