How do I have to change this XML string so that XDocument.Parse reads it in?

Question

In the following code, I serialize an object into an XML string.

But when I try to read this XML string into an XDocument

Answer 1

All above is correct, and here is a code that you should use instead of yours to skip BOM:

 public static string SerializeObject(object o)
        {
            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
            //here is my code
            UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding(false);
            XmlTextWriter xtw = new XmlTextWriter(ms, encoding);
            //XmlTextWriter xtw = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.UTF8);
            xs.Serialize(xtw, o);
            ms = (MemoryStream)xtw.BaseStream;
            return StringHelpers.UTF8ByteArrayToString(ms.ToArray());
       }

By specifying false in the constructor you say "BOM is not provided". Enjoy! =)