XmlSerializer

Every project these days tend to deal with some kind of serialization. I've Created a small pice of code to make my world simpler. How to create a Generic XmlSerializer.

public static class GenericXmlSerializer
{

public static T Deserialize(string xml)
{
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
using (var sr = new StringReader(xml))
{
return (T)serializer.Deserialize(sr);
}
}

public static string Serialize(T source)
{
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
using (var sr = new StringWriter())
{
serializer.Serialize(sr, source);
return sr.ToString();
}
}
}

My next problem is how to run my code. I've created a small example class for my example

public class Item
  {
  public string Name
  {get; set;}

  [XmlElement]
  public string[] Email
  { get; set; }

}

My production code for serialize/deserialize an instance of Item is displayed below.
--Serialize

var item = new Item {Name = "Authovr", Email = new string[] {"author1@gmail.com", "author2@gmail.com"}};
var xml = GenericXmlSerializer.Serialize(item);

--Deserialize

var xml = "<item><name>Author</name><email>author1@gmail.com</email><email>author2@gmail.com</email></item>";
var item = GenericXmlSerializer.Deserialize(xml);

Note!!
My example includes serializing an Array element. Using the XmlElement atteribute makes the serialization nice and readable.