public static string SerializeObject(object obj)
{
 MemoryStream temp = new MemoryStream();
 XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType());
 serializer.Serialize(temp,obj);

 temp.Seek(0,SeekOrigin.Begin);
 byte[] byteArray = new byte[temp.Length];
 int count = 0;
 while (count < temp.Length)
 {
  byteArray[count++] = Convert.ToByte(temp.ReadByte());
 }
 ASCIIEncoding asciiEncoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
 char[] charArray = new char[asciiEncoding.GetCharCount(byteArray, 0, count)];
 asciiEncoding.GetDecoder().GetChars(byteArray, 0, count, charArray, 0);
 return new string(charArray);
}
public static object DeSerializeObject(string s,object obj)
{
 ASCIIEncoding asciiEncoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
 byte[] inp = asciiEncoding.GetBytes(s);
 MemoryStream temp = new MemoryStream();
 XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType());

 temp.Write(inp,0, inp.Length);
 temp.Seek(0,SeekOrigin.Begin);
 return serializer.Deserialize(temp);
}