How can I make the xmlserializer only serialize plain xml?

Question

I need to get plain xml, without the at the beginning and xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-i

Answer 1

Use the XmlSerializer.Serialize method overload where you can specify custom namespaces and pass there this.

var emptyNs = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new[] { XmlQualifiedName.Empty });
serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, objectToSerialze, emptyNs);

passing null or empty array won't do the trick