C# Xml Serializer Functions

#region " XML Serialization "
 
        /// <summary>
        /// serialize an object to XML
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="T">the type of the input object</typeparam>
        /// <param name="objectToSerialize">the object to serialize</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static string XmlSerialize<T>(T objectToSerialize)
        {
            var ms = new MemoryStream();
            var xs = new XmlSerializer(objectToSerialize.GetType());
            var textWriter = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.UTF8);
            xs.Serialize(textWriter, objectToSerialize);
            ms = (MemoryStream)textWriter.BaseStream;
            var xmlString = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
 
            // HACK : do this PI scrubbing more elegantly ...
            if (xmlString.StartsWith("?<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"))
                xmlString = xmlString.Replace("?<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>", string.Empty);
 
            return xmlString;
        }
 
        /// <summary>
        /// deserialize an object from xml
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="T">the type definition for the return object</typeparam>
        /// <param name="xmlString">the serialized object xml</param>
        /// <returns>the deserialized object</returns>
        public static T XmlDeserialize<T>(string xmlString)
        {
            var xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
            var ms = new MemoryStream(UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xmlString));
            var textWriter = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.UTF8);
            var data = (T)xs.Deserialize(ms);
            return data;
        }
 
        #endregion