How to serialize/deserialize simple classes to XML and back

Question

Sometimes I want to emulate stored data of my classes without setting up a round trip to the database. For example, let\'s say I have the following classes:

Answer 1

Nicely done. Here is the example to serialize plain POCO to string.

    private string poco2Xml(object obj)
    {
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType());
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(result))
        {
            serializer.Serialize(writer, obj);
        }
        return result.ToString();
    }