Use SoapFormatter to Serialize an object to xml message : SoapFormatter : Network C# Examples

    
using  System;
using  System.IO;
using  System.Runtime.Serialization;
using  System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap;

[Serializable]
class  Employee
{
    private  int  NO;
    private  string  FirstName;
    private  string  LastName;

    public  void  WriteEmployee()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Number:  "  +  this.NO);
        Console.WriteLine("FirstName:  "  +  this.FirstName);
        Console.WriteLine("LastName:  "  +  this.LastName);
    }

    public  Employee(int  newNO,  string  newFirstName,  string  newLastName){
        this.NO  =  newNO;
        this.FirstName  =  newFirstName;
        this.LastName  =  newLastName;
    }
}

class  MainClass
{
    public  static  void  Main()  
    {
        Employee  MyEmployee  =  new  Employee(1,  "X",  "F");
        MyEmployee.WriteEmployee();

        FileStream  serializeStream  =  new  FileStream("c:\\MyEmployee.xml",  FileMode.Create);

        SoapFormatter  sf  =  new  SoapFormatter();

        sf.Serialize(serializeStream,  MyEmployee);
        serializeStream.Flush();
        serializeStream.Close();

        FileStream  retrieveStream  =  new  FileStream("c:\\MyEmployee.xml",FileMode.Open);
        Employee  NewEmployee  =  (Employee)  sf.Deserialize(retrieveStream);
        NewEmployee.WriteEmployee();
    }
}