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

Using the code below (Class T Taken from your code snippet) you will be able to serialize into an XML file with ease, and without the hassle of implementing ISerializable

[Serializable()]
public class T
{
    public int Id {get; set;}
    public string property1 {get; set;}
    public string property2 {get; set;}
}

...

List data = new List()

... // populate the list

//create the serialiser to create the xml
XmlSerializer serialiser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List));

// Create the TextWriter for the serialiser to use
TextWriter filestream = new StreamWriter(@"C:\output.xml");

//write to the file
serialiser.Serialize(filestream , data);

// Close the file
filestream.Close();