Serialize an object to XElement and Deserialize it in memory

Question

I want to serialize an object to XML, but I don\'t want to save it on the disk. I want to hold it in a XElement variable (for using with LINQ), and then Deserialize back to

Answer 1

(Late answer)

Serialize:

var doc = new XDocument();
var xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyClass));
using (var writer = doc.CreateWriter())
{
    xmlSerializer.Serialize(writer, obj);
}
// now you can use `doc`(XDocument) or `doc.Root` (XElement)

Deserialize:

MyClass obj; 
using(var reader = doc.CreateReader())
{
    obj = (MyClass)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(reader);
}