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rengber on 08/25/09


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Dump an Arbitrary Object to XML (Bypassing Default Serialization)

 / Published in: C#
 

Useful in cases where the object author has specified their own serialization that doesn't work for you.

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  1. public static string ObjectToString(object o)
  2. {
  3.   XDocument doc = new XDocument();
  4.   string objectType = o.GetType().ToString();
  5.   doc.AddFirst(new XElement(objectType));
  6.  
  7.   foreach (PropertyInfo pi in o.GetType().GetProperties())
  8.   {
  9.     doc.Root.Add(new XElement(pi.Name, Convert.ToString(pi.GetValue(o, null))));
  10.   }
  11.   return doc.ToString();
  12. }

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