How do I have to change this XML string so that XDocument.Parse reads it in?

Question

In the following code, I serialize an object into an XML string.

But when I try to read this XML string into an XDocument

Answer 1

You can resolve your problem by using a StreamReader to convert the data in the MemoryStream to a string instead:

public static string SerializeObject(object o)
{
    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
        XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        using (XmlWriter xtw = XmlWriter.Create(ms))
        {
            xs.Serialize(xtw, o);
            xtw.Flush();
            ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(ms))
            {
                return reader.ReadToEnd();
            }
        }
    }
}