How do i covert a List colletion to XML?

Question

hi freinds,
i have class User and i have a List Collection List<User> lstUsers that contains a list of User objects.
The user class contain the following:
public class User
{
public property string userCode{get;set;}
public property string userName{get;set;}
}
How do i convert the list collection to XML?
thanks

Sam Hobbs · Answer

XmlSerializer class for reading and writing XML

Shankey · Answer

Hi, Below is your code, But dont forget to mark my answer as accepted if it helped you a little using System.Xml.Serialization; [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace= " " , IsNullable=false)] public class User { public property string userCode{get;set;} public property string userName{get;set;} } following is you function /// summary > /// Returns the xml as string based on user object values /// / summary > /// param name="user" > object that would be converted into xml / param > /// returns > / returns > public string UserXml(User user) { MemoryStream stream = null ; TextWriter writer = null ; try { stream = new MemoryStream(); // read xml in memory writer = new StreamWriter(stream, Encoding.Unicode) ; // get serialise object XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer( typeof (user)); serializer.Serialize(writer, user); // read object int count = ( int ) stream.Length; // saves object in memory stream byte [] arr = new byte [count]; stream.Seek( 0 , SeekOrigin.Begin); // copy stream contents in byte array stream.Read(arr, 0 , count); UnicodeEncoding utf = new UnicodeEncoding(); // convert byte array to string return utf.GetString(arr).Trim(); } catch { return string .Empty; } finally { if (stream != null ) stream.Close(); if (writer != null ) writer.Close(); } }

Vasanth R · Answer

If you serialize the object, you will get it in xml format