Easy way to convert a Dictionary to xml and vice versa

Question

Wondering if there is a fast way, maybe with linq?, to convert a Dictionary into a XML document. And a way to convert the xml back to a di

Answer 1

Did something like this for an IDictionary

XElement root = new XElement("root");

foreach (var pair in _dict)
{
    XElement cElement = new XElement("parent", pair.Value);
    cElement.SetAttributeValue("id", pair.Key);
    el.Add(cElement);
}

That produced the following XML:

  0
  1
  2
  3