/*
Copyright (c) 2010 <a href="http://www.gutgames.com">James Craig</a>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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THE SOFTWARE.*/
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
namespace Utilities
{
/// <summary>
/// Helps with serializing an object to XML and back again.
/// </summary>
public static class Serialization
{
/// <summary>
/// Converts an object to a SOAP string
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Object">Object to serialize</param>
/// <returns>The serialized string</returns>
public static string ObjectToSOAP(object Object)
{
if (Object == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException("Object can not be null");
}
try
{
using (MemoryStream Stream = new MemoryStream())
{
SoapFormatter Serializer = new SoapFormatter();
Serializer.Serialize(Stream, Object);
Stream.Flush();
return UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Stream.GetBuffer(), 0, (int)Stream.Position);
}
}
catch { throw; }
}
}
}
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