1public class Serializer<T>
2    {
3        /// <summary>

4        /// Converts the XML into an object

5        /// </summary>

6        /// <param name="xml">The XML representation of an object.</param>

7        /// <returns>An object of type T.</returns>

8        public static T Deserialize(string xml)
9        {
10            // convert to the serializable object

11            T item;
12
13            using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xml))
14            {
15                XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
16                item = (T)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
17            }
18
19            return item;
20        }
21
22        /// <summary>

23        /// Converts an object into XML.

24        /// </summary>

25        /// <param name="obj">The object to convert.</param>

26        /// <returns>The XML representation of the object.</returns>

27        public static string Serialize(T obj)
28        {
29            StringBuilder data = new StringBuilder();
30
31            using (StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(data))
32            {
33                XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
34                serializer.Serialize(writer, obj);
35            }
36
37            return data.ToString();
38        }
39    }