Can I Serialize XML straight to a string instead of a Stream with C#?

Question

This example uses a StringWriter to hold the serialized data, then calling ToString() gives the actual string value:

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Answer 1

I created this helper method, but I haven't tested it yet. Updated the code per orsogufo's comments (twice):

private string ConvertObjectToXml(object objectToSerialize)
{
    XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(objectToSerialize.GetType());
    StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();

    xmlSerializer.Serialize(stringWriter, objectToSerialize);

    return stringWriter.ToString();
}