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Dump an Arbitrary Object to XML (Bypassing Default Serialization)

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Useful in cases where the object author has specified their own serialization that doesn't work for you.

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public static string ObjectToString(object o)
{
  XDocument doc = new XDocument();
  string objectType = o.GetType().ToString();
  doc.AddFirst(new XElement(objectType));
 
  foreach (PropertyInfo pi in o.GetType().GetProperties())
  {
    doc.Root.Add(new XElement(pi.Name, Convert.ToString(pi.GetValue(o, null))));
  }
  return doc.ToString();
}