Dynamic override of ToString() using Reflection

Question

I generally override the ToString() method to output the property names and the values associated to them. I got a bit tired of writing these by hand so I\'m looking for a d

Answer 1

I ran into this myself where I am looking for an option to serialize into something readable. If there are no read only properties xml serialization can give a readable string. However if there are read only properties / fields then xml serialization is not an option.

    public static string ToString(object serializeable)
    {
        var type = serializeable.GetType();
        try
        {
            var sw = new StringWriter();
            new XmlSerializer(type).Serialize(sw, serializeable);
            return sw.ToString();
        }
        catch
        {
            return type.FullName;
        }
    }