From & To XML

 public class CustomSerializer<T>

{

        public string ToXml(T obj)

        {

            return ToXml(obj, new Type[] { });

        }

        public string ToXml(T obj, Type[] extraTypes)

        {

            string output = string.Empty;

            using (StringWriter writer = new StringWriter())

            {

                XmlSerializer serializer = null;

                // Serialize the entity.

                serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T), extraTypes);

                serializer.Serialize(writer, obj);

                // Get serialized string.

                output = writer.ToString();

                writer.Close();

                return output;

            }

        }

        public T FromXml(string xmlString)

        {

            return FromXml(xmlString, new Type[] { });

        }

        public T FromXml(string xmlString, Type[] extraTypes)

        {

            T result = default(T);

            XmlSerializer serializer = null;

            using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xmlString))

            {

                // Deserialize the entity.

                serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T), extraTypes);

                result = (T)serializer.Deserialize(reader);

            }

            return result;

        }

}