Handy C# XML Serialization Methods

I have been hacking away on WPF/MVVM, GWT/MVP, and Rails for the last six months and haven't found much time to update. But I wrote some handy C# XML serialization methods. They are very straightforward.

Deserialize:

public static T ReadFromFile(string file) {
    XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(file);
    T ret = (T)xs.Deserialize(sr);
    sr.Close();
    return ret;
}

Serialize:

public static void WriteToFile(T obj, string file) {
    XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(file);
    xs.Serialize(sw, obj);
    sw.Close();
}

Enjoy.

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-JP

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