Takes an object and serializes it into XML.

SerializeIntoXML.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

// Serialize data object into Xml format.
public StringWriter Serialize<T>(T data)
{
	using (var stringWriter = new Utf8StringWriter())
	using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(stringWriter, new XmlWriterSettings { Indent = true }))
	{
		var xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));

		try
		{
			xmlSerializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, data);
		}
		catch (SerializationException ex)
		{
			Console.Write(ex.ToString());
		}

		return stringWriter;
	}
}

// For UTF-8 encoding during serialization.
public class Utf8StringWriter : StringWriter
{
	public override Encoding Encoding
	{
		get { return Encoding.UTF8; }
	}
}