Easier way to serialize C# class as XML text

Question

While trying to answer another question, I was serializing a C# object to an XML string. It was surprisingly hard; this was the shortest code snippet I could come up with:<

Answer 1

Simply if you want to use UTF8 encoding then do it like this

public class StringWriterUtf8 : System.IO.StringWriter
{
    public override Encoding Encoding
    {
        get
        {
            return Encoding.UTF8;
        }
    }

}

and then use StringWriterUtf8 insread of StringWriter like this

        using (StringWriterUtf8 textWriter = new StringWriterUtf8())
        {

            serializer.Serialize(textWriter, tr, ns);

            xmlText = textWriter.ToString();
        }