Example of pretty-printing XML in C# using the XmlWriter class

PrettyXml.cs

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;

static string PrettyXml(string xml)
{
    var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

    var element = XElement.Parse(xml);

    var settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
    settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
    settings.Indent = true;
    settings.NewLineOnAttributes = true;

    using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(stringBuilder, settings))
    {
        element.Save(xmlWriter);
    }

    return stringBuilder.ToString();
}