How do I serialize an object into an XDocument?

Question

I have a class that is marked with DataContract attributes and I would like to create an XDocument from objects of that class. Whats the best way of doing this?

I can do it by going via an XmlDocument but this seems like an unnecessary step.

Answer 1

You can create an XmlWriter directly into the XDocument:

XDocument doc = new XDocument(); using (var writer = doc.CreateWriter()) {     // write xml into the writer     var serializer = new DataContractSerializer(objectToSerialize.GetType());     serializer.WriteObject(writer, objectToSerialize); } Console.WriteLine(doc.ToString()); 

Answer 2

this is how i do it, which gives clean xml without all the namespace stuff in it,

 XDocument xdoc = new XDocument(new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes"));          using (var writer = xdoc.CreateWriter())         {             System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer x =             new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(objecttoserialize.GetType());              x.Serialize(writer, objecttoserialize);         }          Debug.WriteLine(xdoc.ToString());