This example is the steps to serialize and deserialize an object as XML data. The sample generic class will only serialize “public” properties of a class.

Usage:

            
            CSharpCodeExampleData exData = new CSharpCodeExampleData();
            exData.Name = "Popular C# Examples Web Site";
            exData.Url = "http://www.csharpexamples.com";
            exData.AttributeWillBeIgnore = "This value won't be serialized";
            GenericXMLSerializer<CSharpCodeExampleData> serializer = new GenericXMLSerializer<CSharpCodeExampleData>();

            //Serialize
            string xml = serializer.Serialize(exData);

            //Deserialize
            CSharpCodeExampleData deserilizedObject = serializer.Deserialize(xml);

Generic Code:

    public class GenericXMLSerializer<T>
    {
        /// 

        /// Serializes the specified object and returns the xml value
        /// 
        /// 
        /// 
        public string Serialize(T obj)
        {
            string result = string.Empty;

            System.IO.StringWriter writer = new System.IO.StringWriter();
            System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer serializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
            serializer.Serialize(writer, obj);
            result = writer.ToString();

            return result;
        }

        /// 

        ///  Deserializes the XML content to a specified object
        /// 
        /// 
        /// 
        public T Deserialize(string xml)
        {
            T result = default(T);

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(xml))
            {
                System.IO.TextReader tr = new System.IO.StringReader(xml);
                System.Xml.XmlReader reader = System.Xml.XmlReader.Create(tr);
                System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer serializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(T));

                if (serializer.CanDeserialize(reader))
                    result = (T)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
            }
            return result;
        }
    }

    /// 

    /// class example which will be serialized
    /// 
    public class CSharpCodeExampleData
    {
        [XmlAttribute("Url")]
        public string Url = null;
    
        [XmlAttribute("Name")]
        public string Name = null;

        [XmlIgnore]
        public string AttributeWillBeIgnore = null;
    }