Serialize an object to XElement and Deserialize it in memory

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You can use these two extension methods to serialize and deserialize between XElement and your objects.

public static XElement ToXElement<T>(this object obj)
{
    using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
    {
        using (TextWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter(memoryStream))
        {
            var xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
            xmlSerializer.Serialize(streamWriter, obj);
            return XElement.Parse(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray()));
        }
    }
}

public static T FromXElement<T>(this XElement xElement)
{
        var xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        return (T)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(xElement.CreateReader());
}

USAGE

XElement element = myClass.ToXElement<MyClass>();
var newMyClass = element.FromXElement<MyClass>();

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