Save List to XML file

Question

I want to save records fetched from database in an XML file,
take x number of records from XML file into a custom collection List
process them and

Answer 1

Here are two methods that we use to accomplish this using the XMLSerializer:

 public static T FromXML(string xml)
 {
     using (StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xml))
     {
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        return (T)serializer.Deserialize(stringReader);
     }
 }

 public string ToXML(T obj)
 {
    using (StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(new StringBuilder()))
    {
        XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        xmlSerializer.Serialize(stringWriter, obj);
        return stringWriter.ToString();
    }
 }