Can I serialize Anonymous Types as xml?

Question

I understood that anonymous types are marked private by the compiler and the properties are read-only. Is there a way to serialize them to xml (without deserialize) ? It wor

Answer 1

I know this is an old post, but my solution converts an anonymous type to XML in only 2 lines of code.

First convert you anonymous type to JSON, and then from JSON to XML.

var jsonText = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data);           // convert to JSON
XmlDocument doc = JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(jsonText); // convert JSON to XML Document

Sample

var data = new       // data - Anonymous Type
{
    Request = new
    {
        OrderNumber = 123,
        Note = "Hello World"
    }
};

var jsonText = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data);           
XmlDocument doc = JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(jsonText);

Console.WriteLine(doc.OuterXml);                            

Output

    123
    Hello World