C# object to string and back

Question

My problem:
I have a dynamic codecompiler which can compile a snippet of code. The rest of the code. (imports, namespace, class, main function) is already there. The snipp

Answer 1

It's an old question but I think that I have a solution that can work better for most of the times (it creates a shorter string and doesn't require the Serializable attribute).

The idea is to serialize the object to JSON and then convert it to base64, see the extension function:

public static string ToBase64(this object obj)
{
    string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(obj);

    byte[] bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(json);

    return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
}

In order to create the object, we need to convert the base64 to bytes, convert to string and deserialize the JSON to T

public static T FromBase64(this string base64Text)
{
    byte[] bytes = Convert.FromBase64String(base64Text);

    string json = Encoding.Default.GetString(bytes);

    return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
}