DataContractSerializer - how can I output the xml to a string (as opposed to a file)

Question

I had a quick question regarding the datacontractserializer. Maybe it\'s more of a stream question. I found a piece of code that writes the xml to a filestream. I basically don\

Answer 1

A variant of @root's answer:

var serializer = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(T));
var sb = new StringBuilder();
using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(sb))
{
    serializer.WriteObject(writer, objectToSerialize);
}

return sb.ToString();