Using DataContractSerializer to serialize, but can't deserialize back

Question

I have the following 2 functions:

public static string Serialize(object obj)
{
    DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(obj.GetType         


        

Answer 1

This best for XML Deserialize

 public static object Deserialize(string xml, Type toType)
    {

        using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml)))
        {
            System.IO.StreamReader str = new System.IO.StreamReader(memoryStream);
            System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer xSerializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(toType);
            return xSerializer.Deserialize(str);
        }

    }