Create XML from class or Object in C-Sharp

function to serialize object to xml in c#

public static string SerializeObjectToXML(object item)
        {
            try
            {
                string xmlText;
                Type objectType = item.GetType();
                XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(objectType);
                MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
                using (XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter =
                    new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8) { Formatting = Formatting.Indented })
                {
                    xmlSerializer.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, item);
                    memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;
                    xmlText = new UTF8Encoding().GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());
                    memoryStream.Dispose();
                    return xmlText;
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(e.ToString());
                return null;
            }
        }