Serializing WITHOUT xmlns

Question

I have a couple extension methods that handle serialization of my classes, and since it can be a time consuming process, they are created once per class, and handed out by t

Answer 1

 public static byte[] SerializeByteByType(object objectToSerialize, Type type)
    {
        XmlWriterSettings xmlSetting = new XmlWriterSettings()
        {
            NewLineOnAttributes = false,
            OmitXmlDeclaration = true,
            Indent = false,
            NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.None,
            Encoding = Encoding.UTF8,
            NamespaceHandling = NamespaceHandling.OmitDuplicates
        };

        using (MemoryStream stm = new MemoryStream())
        {
            using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(stm, xmlSetting))
            {
                var xmlAttributes = new XmlAttributes();
                var xmlAttributeOverrides = new XmlAttributeOverrides();

                xmlAttributes.Xmlns = false;
                xmlAttributes.XmlType = new XmlTypeAttribute() { Namespace = "" };
                xmlAttributeOverrides.Add(type, xmlAttributes);

                XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(type, xmlAttributeOverrides);
                //Use the following to serialize without namespaces
                XmlSerializerNamespaces xmlSrzNamespace = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
                xmlSrzNamespace.Add("", "");

                serializer.Serialize(writer, objectToSerialize, xmlSrzNamespace);
                stm.Flush();
                stm.Position = 0;
            }

            return stm.ToArray();
        }
    }